2017.07.15 \u2013 Marseille (France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a nice breakfast at our Ibis Style hotel, we headed out to explore the city equipped with some daily transit passes. We started our visit at the Vieux Port (Old Port). We later hopped on a bus to tour the Basilique Notre Date de la Garde perched on top a hillside of Marseille. Back in the Vieux Port, we headed for a stroll through the old part of town called Le Panier. We had a long and very enjoyable lunch at a neighborhood caf\u00e9. Late in the afternoon, we headed back to the hotel for a rest. We noticed in the metro that some disruption in service would be taking place at night due to the re-scheduled fireworks that were postponed yesterday as part of France\u2019s Bastille Day. Late evening, we took the metro to the closest station to the Vieux Port which was still accessible to folks wanting to see the fireworks. We stopped for an evening meal along a pedestrian walkway dotted with restaurants. Although we were several blocks away from the Old port, the launch point of the fireworks, we managed to enjoy quite a good display of fireworks while we were eating our pizza and sipping wine.<\/p>\n\n\n
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