Ashley, Zan, myself and Miss K posing in front of the infamous Chateau d'If. If you don't know why it's infamous, I'm not going to tell you!
It was all fun and games until we got inside and couldn't wait to escape! (see below)
Palais de Longchamp
Here we are. Posing again. This time outside a large..um..thing. It's supposed to be a fountain, but without any water I don't know what you would call it. I wish they had the water flowing. From the looks of it, though, I don't think they've had the water flowing for a long, long time.
Voila! The backside of the center-most sculpture! I won't lie; I didn't actually take this picture. My camera batteries had depleted long before we arrived. (In fact, they didn't even last a whole day. But, that's beside the point). I do, however, take some credit for the picture since it was my idea to take it. I like it. I like it a lot.
When it all comes down to it: We are all posers. But, I like the picture, so don't judge. The second picture shows a graffiti sign hanging from the art. I don't know if the perps just didn't have souls or just don't have anything better to do. I don't know what it says, so any French-speakers out there, help me out. It really amazed me that nobody had bothered to take it down. I was about to climb up there and take it down myself, but there was a security guard walking around and I was afraid he'd either shoot me or deport me. The bobbies in Scotland don't carry guns, but I don't know what France's law-enforcement is like. It can't be too scary since the juvenile delinquents seem to run amuck in this city! But, the point is, graffiti has become part of the architecture in the city here. From the words of a Frenchman, "Marseille is an antique city without any antiques."
Uh oh. Busted! We played on this silly little children's playground toy for quite some time. We couldn't figure out how to stay on it. Our legs kept hitting the ground on the short end and we'd go rollin'. No wonder these French kids have to occupy their time with destructive activities. Their playground equipment is lame!
The longest park bench in the world! (supposedly 3km or somethin) Betcha didn't even know it existed, eh? I sure didn't. I am not sure if it counts as the longest in the world because there are breaks in the bench every few feet. Perhaps it should be the longest 'series' of park benches in the world! The second picture is of a chicken! Yeah, we were there during festival so we saw a lot of crazy costumes. The funniest was this little beauty salon where the workers were all dressed up. One was a cat, and this guy was a chicken. They were just going about their business. Cutting hair in their costumes. We wanted to take a picture from outside, but we'd look stupid, so to our advantage, the guy came outside to talk to this car and..SNAP! We got him!
What did I tell you about the graffiti?! Everywhere! Okay, these were pretty cool. Even though that funny looking astronaut on the left is smoking a joint.
Cathedral Major
By far my most favorite place in Marseille! As an expert once said as he used to sit and 'enjoy its silent enormity,' "It is so huge that it seems to swallow sound. The peacefulness there is almost haunting - even when there are crazy riots going on outside!"
I would put more pictures up, but I don't have any of the inside. It is not very respectful to take pictures inside a church, so the only way to experience this magnicficent, striped Cathedral is first-hand.
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