Marseille

Marseille has been great experience. Staying with other travellers has been a welcome change from the self-inflicted solitude.

Met an amazing Taywanes girl and one hilarious Hungarian. Spend the day roaming the city and enjoying the nightlife on top of a parking garage turned art which our gracious host showed us.

My flip-flops disintegrated because of all the walking.

After staying up all night I started early in the direction of le Camargue which is a nature reserve between Montpellier and Marseille.

I was so tired I found a little cave at the beach and slept during noon.

Then I followed a mountainside of "blue seaside".

However, from there started an ugly part of crossing the industrial sites at the Salines.

When I arrived in  Foz sur mer I asked in the tourist office how to get to Camarque. They answered that I need to follow  the autoroute 20 km. Seriously , I checked on the map there was no other way. Anyways I put in my earplugs and listend to an audio book.

The when I got to the reserve the Mistral wind was blowing so much I had to walk with the bike at hand. Luckily I could hitchhike to the beach where I slept.

Today I had to walk also at the beginning about three hours against the wind in the sand before I found a trail fit for biking and could go West instead of North against the Wind. For the walking I strapped the bike to me, so I could carry it along.

Happily,I arrived here in St. Marie back in civilisation.