Out and In

Today witnessed the departure of Carole and Claude as they took their journey to Scotland and the arrival of Brigitte from Canada. Prior to all of this happening, I took a trip to the garbage dumpsters in the centre of the village and had to fend off the cats to dump anything. Although only three show up in this photo, there were no less than 7 carousing cats, which begs the question, “Does a village of this size have any animal control?”

As we were driving to Marseilles, we got a call from Brigitte saying she had missed her connecting flight in Munich. Since I booked her flight, I felt a little responsible and had warned her about the tight turn-around in Munich. Anyway, she gave us her later flight time and that created a window of opportunity for Carole and Claude to visit old Marseilles.

So we parked in our usual Marseilles City Hall parking garage and walked around the harbour. There were a lot of new displays in this year of Marseilles as the European tour destination, including these funky sculptures of travelers with body parts missing.

We also experienced a fisherman’s market at the end of the harbour, where the fishermen pulled their boats in and sold their product, right on the dock. Cool! and Fresh! You want fresh fish, octopus, eel - you got it!

We continued our walk, enjoying the ambience.

Then we selected this restaurant for lunch that featured moules frites and grilled sardines, so it was a no brainer.

Following our fabulously brief visit to Marseilles we drove Carole and Claude to the airport, had a short wait before they could check in and then finally bid them farewell and excellent Scotch in Scotland. We had another short wait and then Brigitte arrived in pretty good spirits considering her adventures in Munich. Back at Chez Pigeon, we enjoyed the late day terrace and wine and had a casual snack of cheese and crackers for dinner.