Marseille

After spending a few very civilized and enjoyable days in Marseille I’m leaving tonight at the ungodly hour of 2 am to fly to Turkey.  I am very sad to leave France.  It has been so easy to be here, so relaxing.  If I weren’t already booked into tours for the next 5 weeks or so I’d love to stay and explore more of France.  I will just have to save it for next spring I guess.

This morning I took the ferry out to the Fioul archipelago which is a grouping of three small islands out in the bay.   One of the islands is the Chateau D’If which was the prison for Dantes in the “Count of Monte Cristo”.  Being a fan of the movie I was disappointed that I couldn’t visit the island as the seas were too rough to allow for safe docking.  The other two islands were joined by a causeway in the 19th century to create a harbour.  I spent a lovely few hours rambling around the islands, enjoying the views of the ocean and Marseille.

Marseille

Chateau D’If with Marseille in the background

Chateau D’If

Ile de Frioul

Harbour of Ile Frioul

This evening for my last meal I returned to the English pub I was at a few nights ago.  On the advice of a friend I wanted to try the Leffe dark ale which proved to be equally lovely.  Also as I’m leaving Europe now for a while I wanted one more Flammekuche (it ended up not being quite the same as what I had in Germany in August).

Flammekuche with Leffe Rituel

Desert was pear sorbet covered in pear brandy.  As you can expect it was quite lethal and infinitely yummy!  The problem is that I have a cough again and the pharmacist gave me cough medication that has codeine in it.  I’m hoping it make it to my flight safely!

Pear sorbet with pear brandy