Thursday was a day filled of recuperating from Paris and getting ready for our next big trip: Marseilles! To allow a decent amount of time for the trip, Tony and Caroline prepared double classes on Thursday to give us Friday off – Thanks!! Greek class consisted of talking in circles about the quality of life and science vs. philosophy. French class was about different verb tenses and listening comprehension for train station messages…. Always difficult to understand it. After class, Caroline convinced some of us to head into town for the last Terrace de Jeudi, the summer concerts that they have in Rouen. It was a nice concert, but we still headed back early to try to get some sleep before our early morning departure.
Friday morning we met up early to start our multi-stop journey ahead of us: La Gare de Rouen to Paris at Gare St. Lazare, then a metro ride to Gare de Lyon to take us to our final destination: Marseille! We arrived in sunny Marseille around 1:30, got to the hotel around 2:00 and we were on the beach by 3 pm. PARFAIT!
At the beach we definitely had a stroke of culture shock: I’ve never seen so many topless women in my entire life! Apparently they have the choice to be covered or not—many of the older women decided to go half naked. Lovely.
Around 6 we decided to head back to get ready for a nice dinner. It was wonderfully shocking to stay to the beach so late- in Newport the latest you could stay at the beach would be around 4 or 5 if you’re lucky. In Marseille? People were still arriving around 6 pm with plenty of time to spare. Pretty nice - quite jealous of the extended daylight.
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