Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde, Marseille

Advantages: Cheaper than England, great food, easy to get to, friendly people
Disadvantages: High crime rate, polluted (aren't all big cities??!?) Its French (Lol)

...just over 3 hours. The French TGV is the fastest train in the world and TGV are probably the best trains in the world. So it is slightly better than Virgin Trains or Connex South Central!! (The French government seem to take expenditure on rail travel seriously) And the other way to get to Marseille is by car; a long, long way but some people do it. I saw several English number plates whilst I was in Marseille. French lorry driver so I can't advise you to use that option. Notre-Dame de la Garde is perhaps the most well-known tourist attraction of Marseille and it is one definitely worth visiting. Notre-Dame de la Garde is a cathedral overlooking Marseille. The view is magnificent and from Notre-Dame de la Garde you can see all of Marseille. You can go inside the cathedral which is historical but frankly nothing particularly different... Read review

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Advantages: beautiful, and full of history...
Disadvantages: the sun !!! which is always shining !!!

...Hello everybody ! Today, I'll try to perfect my english, because as I write in my personality, I'm a french student in Telecommunication and Networks... Well, I'll deal with Marseille, which is My Town... I'll try to present a fex monuments of my town. oo0oo NOTRE DAME DE LA GARDE oo0oo In the past, the La Garde hill was devoted to three functions : a look-out post (observation), a fortified castle (defense), and a basilica (cult). The Romanesque-Byzantine style religious building was erected between 1853 and 1864. THE SAINT VICTOR ABBEY (Open every day from 08.00 to 12.00 a.m. and from 02.00 to 06.00 p.m.) Marseille introduced monastic order in Provence. The crypts conserve highly valuable archeological evidence which attest to the presence of a quarry, exploited in the Greek era, followed by a Hellenistic necropolis of which... Read review

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Advantages: Summary, georgouse weather!
Disadvantages: Boiling hot

..., or hanging off a tree; I had to get my cousin to hold it up at one point. Shopping in town is very nice, althrough some things can be expensive. There's a shop which has Garfield items for sale like clocks, slippers, towels etc. There's lots of cafe places in town. There’s a very nice café on the harbour which has chairs and tables outside facing a merry go round, which has horses on. When the wind gets up the tables can suddenly take off like Apollo 12. The menu is good with lots of pastries and hot meals (can’t remember their names). You can get drinks like Pineapple, orange and Cranbury, Coke is also available. It’s so hot that we have to run the fans all the time, at night it is tolerable. During the day the heating go up to the 30’s about 7.30am! Basilica of Notra Dame de la Garde The Basilica of Notra Dame de la Garde... Read review

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