Marseille - France

Lisa and I recently went to Marseille, France's second largest city. Our pass through Marseille airport was in record time as it wasn't big at all, felt more like a regional airport.

Marseille was famous for a few things, being Seafood, Bouillabaisse - a traditional Provençal fish stew, and Soap (Savon de Marseille) and it's the gateway to the provence region.

After checking into our hotel, we took to the streets and headed for the Port (Vieux Port) passing through the many shops, restaurants, bars, cafes and Pizza joints. Rumour has it, Marseille has some of the best Pizza's in the world, and a restaurant serving the best Pizza in in the world. Lisa and I didn't get to try this restaurant, but we did get to try some pizza nearby a local market, and we can definitely say, it was damn good! and for 1 € a piece, it was great value. I think it was one of the best pizza's we've ever tasted. We would've been happy to live the whole weekend on Pizza.

As we walked through the city, we explored a traditional French Christmas Market, which was essentially and outdoor market with little stores, all decked out in Christmas decorations (a European Christmas tradition), selling normal goods, and also Christmas orientated goods. The smell of roasted chestnut tempted many by passers... yummm!!


Vieux port (the main area of Marseille) streets were lined with heaps of Seafood restaurants . We had dinner in a restaurant by the port, and Lisa order the Bouillabaisse which she throughly enjoyed, and I had the Mussels, which was nice, but nothing out of the ordinary. The only thing we didn't enjoy was the fact it too over an hour to get our meals, and the restaurant wasn't even that busy, maybe it was the French way.

Marseille was a medium sized town, with the traditional French architecture, small alley ways, lined with cafe's and restaurants, dominated by churches, and none bigger and more grand than the Notre Dame de la Garde perched up on the hills, which can be seen almost anywhere in Marseille. We didn't reach this Cathedral as it meant a steep hill climb, and we were in no mood for it. A perfect French get away.