Our Villa at Last!

We spent Sat morning touring Marseille, taking a little mini train up to Notre Dame de la Garde, the church that overlooks the whole city. There were wonderful views of the Mediterranean, the coastline and Vieux Port.

We drove to Calanques de Callelongue for lunch at a little place called La Grotte - the village seemed to be in the middle of nowhere on the coast outside of Marseille, but the restaurant was quite full at 2 pm when we arrived.

After a lunch of pizza and pasta, we headed to our villa in Vernegues, via Aix-en-Provence, arriving around 4:30 pm. The others had just arrived so we had a chaotic 30 mins or so learning about the house and figuring out the sleeping arrangements.


Here's the view from our bedroom window - lavender and grapevines.

We went to the supermarket and filled three large carts with food for 18 and had a lovely dinner on the terrace - eating, drinking and talking for hours. It's a great start to the vacation...