{"id":3198,"date":"2015-06-14T23:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T06:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2015-06-15T06:53:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:53:48","slug":"harbors-cathedrals-markets-and-lavendar-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/harbors-cathedrals-markets-and-lavendar-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbors, Cathedrals, Markets and Lavendar UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harborside view of Marseilles and her cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marseille was a funky town once. Now it’s got a shiny harbor, some beautiful museums and broad vistas, a hugely diverse population and close to a million tourists per year – up from the 20,000 it claimed when we were there in the 1980’s.<\/p>\n

On arrival we\u00a0went almost at once to nearby Aix-en-Provence, and \u00a0its markets, lavender shops, cathedrals and history. (Even aerosol olive oil – see second pic.) \u00a0\u00a0\"AIX<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"2015-06-14<\/a>The wars are here too, as they always are in Europe – today in memory plaques for the “martyr’s of the Resistance.” \u00a0The story of those real participants is scary and moving and true. \u00a0There’s also a memorial to those who helped to liberate\u00a0Aix.<\/p>\n

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It was really hot in Marseilles so we took this tiny train on a one-hour circle up to the Basilica\u00a0Notre-Dame de la Garde<\/a>\u00a0and back.
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And on the way, one more reminder of the continued ghost of WWII here – this tank was part of the liberation of Marseille and sits on a triangle of land among apartments and houses and a plain residential neighborhood. History doesn’t have to repeat itself – it’s still here.
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Marseille was a funky town once. Now it’s got a shiny harbor, some beautiful museums and broad vistas, a hugely diverse population and close to a million tourists per year – up from the 20,000 it claimed when we were there in the 1980’s. On arrival we\u00a0went almost at once to nearby Aix-en-Provence, and \u00a0its … Continue reading Harbors, Cathedrals, Markets and Lavendar UPDATED<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,722,9,98,97,78],"tags":[3302,3303,3307,2615,3309,3306,3308,3304,3305,3301,2621,2640,3282],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-food-and-drink","category-politics","category-religion","category-television","category-travel","tag-aix","tag-aix-en-provence","tag-cathedral","tag-cruise","tag-french-architecture","tag-harbor","tag-italian-architecture","tag-lavender","tag-lavinedin","tag-marseilles","tag-seabourn","tag-seabourn-cruise","tag-seabourn-sojourn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-PA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}