Hello all from Marseille....
We arrived here yesterday without too much difficulty considering this was the first part of the trip in which we drove....
Would have been less complicated if my GPS had of decided it wanted to work from the beginning of the day!! For some reason it doesn't like it here and keeps jamming so for most of the day we were just following the street signs, its pretty easy as it is all highways and very clearly marked.
We stopped in Arle for lunch and had a look around there for a few hours then headed into Marseille, the GPS decided to work about 30 mins out of the town which was a good thing as we could possibly still be driving around now to find the hotel without it!
Anyway the getting here is not the funny part of the story its the carparking that was hilarious (well as we look back now anyway) we missed the turn off to the hotel which was a good thing as about 100metres along was the sign for the car park which is underground we drove in got a ticket as you do found a park anywhere we could and went up to the hotel to check in they advised us we had to park in the hotel section which makes sense now! but we could not just move there we had to go out then come back in easy hay??? not so much! the ticket we got didn't work... no one speaks English...we got stuck at the exit..someone parked behind us so when we could get out we couldn't...mum went running around the car park to find the attendants office... park blocking us left...no mum.... i got told to move so did..... in a nut shell we finally made it to where we where supposed to park and after all that didn't cost us anything YAY and I found mum!
So now we have to figure out how to get to NICE tomorrow but that's tomorrow I guess, we had our Bouillabaisse last night and today did a city tour this place is huge and with the ocean breeze quite cold ,I will blog again when and if we make it to NICE (I am sure we will be fine)
until then have a nice weekend.
We arrived here yesterday without too much difficulty considering this was the first part of the trip in which we drove....
Would have been less complicated if my GPS had of decided it wanted to work from the beginning of the day!! For some reason it doesn't like it here and keeps jamming so for most of the day we were just following the street signs, its pretty easy as it is all highways and very clearly marked.
We stopped in Arle for lunch and had a look around there for a few hours then headed into Marseille, the GPS decided to work about 30 mins out of the town which was a good thing as we could possibly still be driving around now to find the hotel without it!
Anyway the getting here is not the funny part of the story its the carparking that was hilarious (well as we look back now anyway) we missed the turn off to the hotel which was a good thing as about 100metres along was the sign for the car park which is underground we drove in got a ticket as you do found a park anywhere we could and went up to the hotel to check in they advised us we had to park in the hotel section which makes sense now! but we could not just move there we had to go out then come back in easy hay??? not so much! the ticket we got didn't work... no one speaks English...we got stuck at the exit..someone parked behind us so when we could get out we couldn't...mum went running around the car park to find the attendants office... park blocking us left...no mum.... i got told to move so did..... in a nut shell we finally made it to where we where supposed to park and after all that didn't cost us anything YAY and I found mum!
So now we have to figure out how to get to NICE tomorrow but that's tomorrow I guess, we had our Bouillabaisse last night and today did a city tour this place is huge and with the ocean breeze quite cold ,I will blog again when and if we make it to NICE (I am sure we will be fine)
until then have a nice weekend.
1 comment:
Hi Schulzy
I left a message for you but you know me, I reckon I amy have left it on your last trip (never mind). Sounds like your having a great time! Hope your Mum's ok (lol). Did you perve on the french dudes? I would have.. Looking forward to catching up with ya when you get back.
Take care xxx
DebC
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