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Getting Around
Unlike most of Provence, which is best seen with your own wheels, you will be grateful in
Marseille and Aix-en-Provence not to have a car. Driving is difficult, parking expensive.
Public transport is super in both cities. To really explore Les Calanques and to drive the
jaw-dropping Route des Crêtes near Cassis, though, a car is handy.
THREE PERFECT DAYS
Day 1: Sensory Marseille
Engage in Marseille's frenzy of sights, sounds, smells and flavours: follow the sound of clinking masts to the
Vieux Port fish market. Grab a coffee at La Caravelle ( Click here ) and sail to Château d'If ( Click here ) . Explore
Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée ( Click here ) and get lost in Le Panier ( Click here ) .
Then take a seaside stroll to Vallon des Auffes for bouillabaisse ( Click here ) .
Day 2: Gorge on Green
Hike into Les Calanques ( Click here ) , booking a table in advance at one of the seaside restaurants. Post-lunch,
take a scenic drive around Cassis ( Click here ). Wine taste in the afternoon and sup on sea urchins and crisp white
wine at Cassis port.
Day 3: Cézanne Chic
Stroll Aix-en-Provence ( Click here ) : from the windy streets of Vieil Aix to its elegant hôtels particuliers (private
mansions) and the Musée Granet ( Click here ) . Follow in the footsteps of Cézanne ( Click here ) , then explore
Montagne Ste-Victoire ( Click here ). End with a starlit dinner in best-kept secret Ventabren ( Click here ).
Advance Planning
» Accommodation The best rooms get snapped up fast - book ahead. Aix-en-Provence
fills fast during its fiesta of festivals and at weekends year-round. Its tourist office runs a
booking office and, November to March, books hotels offering two nights for the price of
one.
» Sormiou & Morgiou Calanques To revel in the natural beauty of Marseille's best-
known calanques at sunset, minus a stiff walk in the searing heat, reserve a table at a
Sormiou or Morgiou restaurant, which grants you the right to drive right down to the wa-
ter's edge.
 
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