Day 2 Cassis & Marseilles

So our next day started bright and early with plans to catch the early train to Marseilles. Actually made the train, only to find the next train we had to catch had been cancelled... so ended up travelling to the little village of Nimes to wait for the next one (2 hours later!). Managed to find the Arene de Nimes (or something like that). Like the smaller, dumber country cousin of the Colosseum! Anyway, Rachel slowly went mad from having to get up early resulting in the following picture!
Anyway, we finally made it to Marseilles after catching the 'fast' train which we didn't have tickets for! Rebels - not really we were freaking out about it the whole way! Arrived in Marseilles and immediately decided to leave - such a dirty town! Went to get out planned boat to Cassis which is a little village on the coast North of Marseilles, only to find the boat didn't stop there. Planning fail for me! So had to take a bus that only left like 2 hours later! Painful! Totally worth it when we eventually got there. The water was so blue but really really cold! Had lunch and chilled on the beach for a bit before heading out on our cruise of the Calanques. The Calanques are these white cliffs that are beautiful, the locals were all sunbaking and jumping off them into the water. The water was so amazingly blue, so different to anything I've seen before.

After returning to Cassis, we chilled on the beach again - tough life! The beach wasn't actually the best - made up of tiny little stones - it really hurt your feet. I've definitely been spoiled by Aussie beaches. Heading back to Marseilles we had a bit of time and decided to head up the hill to see the Notre de la Gare - a big church overlooking Marseilles. It was a big walk up the hill but totally worth it to see the sunset over the water. Then it was back to Paris, after another running for the train episode - we need to learn to do better with time!