Calendal was a humble anchovy fisherman and hero of a work by famous local poet Frederic Mistral. His memory is now honoured by this statue made in Cassis stone.
Cassis is a coastal town in Provence, also just a short drive from Marseilles. It is definitely a tourist destination, and so gets popular and crowded in high season.
Sadly we travelled to Cassis......
"He who has seen Paris and who hasn't seen Cassis can say I have seen nothing" (Frederic Mistral, Nobel Prize for Literature winner).
This small fishing port, nestled between two exceptional natural...
There is an expression in the region saying "Qui a vu paris et non Cassis n'a rien vu" (Who has seen Paris but not Cassis, has seen nothing)...Well, I agree, Cassis is a wonderful picturesque warm...
I arrived in Cassis by Train from Nice only to find that the train station was some 3 kms outside town and there was no connecting bus service. On advice from two swedish cyclists, I decided to walk...
Cassis seemed to be a very nice town. We came there by car and there were no parking spaces at all. Apparently everyone else had got the same idea as us - only a little sooner.
But we drove down...
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