I want a boat!

If anyone has not been on a super fast speed boat, do so immediately.

This is just awesome!!!

The wind in your face, clear blue skies and turquoise water. Brilliant!

On the cruise baby!

Graffiti

This plagues almost ALL of europe. I don't know why but teenagers find this cool enough to put this on any and every empty space they can find.

Stupid.

Castle Longchamp

This is a castle? Ru kidding?

Its so tiny!

Indian restaurant!

Yahoo!

The ship paintings.

The walls are covered with it.

Look! Ships in a church!

Am I the only one who finds it a BIT weird that there are ships hanging all over this church?

It would make sense though since Marseilles has always been a port city and got rich rather seriously because of the sea and trade.

Ofcourse - it also brought to them the plague epidemic and killed 50k people.

Inside Notre Dame

I don't know why they have so many Notre Dames.
There is one in Paris. One in Cannes
And one here!

Count of Monte Cristo

Remember our hero from the story?
That's the place he was imprisoned in. (Well, in the book anyway)

Visit is tomorrow.

Marseille view from the top

The cathedral of notre dame.

Marseille Port

This was originally a fishing port )and I guess still is because this is the first port where I could get the smell of fish (as made infamous by apna mumbai)

Off To Marseilles

This is not the TGV which is showing because even though it starts from Nice, it is 10 minutes late. I don't know why!

Atleast it has nicely reclining seats

Ice cream capital of the world?

If there was one place in the world that could qualify as the ice cream capital - nice would be it!

The way people display names of the restaurants, Nice seems to have a tradition of displaying the fact that the place has ice cream!

Everywhere you will find "glaces" written which means ice cream in french (I think!)

What you see here is the last course of my first seriously big meal.

It consisted of a huge cheese tomato sandwich, about 5 kilos of fries (they are standard!) And ofcourse, this rather nice ice cream.

Oh and for those wondering, Nice is pronounced "niece" and not "nice"

Nice town

View from the top.

The Nice beach

Its awesome! And true to its name, the famous beach is indeed pretty topless ;)

Nice in the morning

The place to eat

When wandering around in old Nice, make sure you grab a bite or a coffee at Alexander's. Very nice place and extremely friendly and polite staff.

Flower market

The chaos. The smells and the energy.

Very nice way to begin your day!

Church of st Jeanne de arc

Nice Train Station