France 2001
Marseilles
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View of Marseille on a sunny day in 2005, from the train station, and saw the hotel where I stayed in 2001 at the corner. |
Palais de la Bourse holds the chamber of commerce and a mariner's museum |
The downtown is pretty much a Muslim enclave, probably mostly from Algiers |
The fortfications that remind of the time when Marseilles was a powerful military base as well as a major port for France |
For lack of anything better to do, since I was spending just one afternoon in Marseilles, I hopped on a ferry that serviced the different islands |
This is part of the cargo |
The Marseilles Cathedral |
On the island where the truck was to be unloaded there was much confusion - French island folk. I had no idea what was going on |
They finally backed it off the ferry and we could proceed |
The island of the Count of Monte Cristo story |