Near the Chateau d’If
These might be the same poor flinkers who were desperately trying to dock during the cold rain and snow that corresponded almost exactly with our two-hour tour to the Ile Frioul.
These might be the same poor flinkers who were desperately trying to dock during the cold rain and snow that corresponded almost exactly with our two-hour tour to the Ile Frioul.
March 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM
The tour books usually warn against going to Marseilles, but it is a great place. There are a couple of notable movie scenes filmed at or near the Ile Frioul… Guns of Navarone, for one, this, for another:
March 9, 2010 at 3:19 PM
The setting of Dumas’ “Count of Monte Cristo”. The latest version (2002)
fimed some here too.
March 9, 2010 at 3:33 PM
Y’all are so cultured. And then you talk about boobies. That’s why I love the Muse.
And yes, Boat, Marseilles is pretty cool. Loved the fishmongers at the Old Port. Money quote (it was all in French — this is translation):
Customer: “Oh look, the fish are alive.” (They were; they were flipping around on the tray.)
Mongeress, heaving a sigh: “Eh, oui, more alive than me.”
Love them French, too.
March 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM
Yeah. Sometimes I know how the monger feels. When we were there, the mongers had live octopi. Now that’s fresh fish.