Monday July 22

Shopping and Beach


This will be a very short post.  We walked down to the Old Port this morning, had coffee and did a little shopping.  We have some of the obligatory Marseille soap to cart around now.  Then we came back to the apartment, took a cooling break, and headed out to the beach.  Then for two hours it was take a dip-read-snooze-repeat.  We're back home finishing the laundry to hang this evening so everything is ready for tomorrow and our train trip to Amsterdam.  We have to be up at 5:30 am and heading to the train station!


My view on the beach

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