We made it to France with basically no problems. RyanAir was an adventure, and actually not nearly as bad as we had somewhat anticipated. They played a nice little tune with a congratulatory message to themselves when we landed and were 5minutes ahead of schedule. Good job.
So the airport at Marseille, now that we've flown in and out from there, makes a lot of sense. But when you fly in on a shit airline, it seems to be the worst airport ever because you are in a separate terminal with no view of the rest of the airport. Thank goodness we found some friendly people, who also had no idea where to go or what to do, but we managed to get ourselves taxis to take us into the city... 63Euro later (CRAP!), we arrived at the hotel. It was pretty nice--no complaints. The traffic in Marseille is pretttty insane... definitely saw some vespas on the sidewalk nearly running people over. Not much to do since we arrived on a Sunday and most things are closed, but we found a good place for dinner at least.
Took a tram tour up to Notre Dame de la Garde and WOW, the views of the city from up there are stunning. You could see everything. Walked around a lot, saw another Cathedral and the harbor... very relaxed atmosphere. The people seemed a lot more considerate, for whatever reason. And they love sailor-inspired things when it comes to fashion, so lots of stripes and knots and what not... the one thing we hated was that tons of people had these awful Birkenstocks on (not that Birkenstocks are all awful, but these particular ones were), and men and women were all wearing the same, white style of these shoes. Not a fan. But that's ok.
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