Turquoise Coast 3: A Taste of the Orient

We also went to several cities during our Provence/Cote d'Azur vacation: Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and Toulon. We actually went to Marseille twice because there was so much to see and do! Here are some of the things we saw ...


Some of the architectural details ... parts of them still very beautiful, other parts ... I guess they were meant to be beautiful ...











Finally, we sat down for a tasty mezze dish containing tabouleh and other treats ...





The Game is a very serious thing ...


Soaps are a big thing in the Provence ... at least in tourist shops ...


Taking a short break from the hot day in a cool church, with two women practising on a beautiful organ ...


Various coffee places ...






We found the oriental culture especially fascinating ... the shops offer an overwhelming variety of oriental food ... food and more. So many things I did not know! I thought I could spend weeks here, finding out about all these mysterious things in detail ...






Toulon contains a military harbour ... who would have thought that (at least on the advertisements) French torpedoes are dispatched by good looking young women wearing civilian clothes ...



This ad promotes "shopping attitude" - yes, I'm sure even the inhabitants of these ugly buildings are more than happy to bring all their money into the expensive clothes shops ...