Day Six – Aix-en-Provence Sighseeing & Optional Marseilles Excursion

This morning we enjoyed a city tour of our homebase, Aix-en-Provence, with our local guide Chantelle. Aix-en-Provence is a young and lively city filled with innumerable options for eating and shopping. On our tour, we explored the Cours Mirabeau and Place de la Rotande as well as the local fruit and vegetable market, the Hotel de Ville (City Hall), and the cathedral. Chantelle also gave us the inside scoop on all the best places to shop for specific items. We’ve all be shopping a fair bit…not surehow we’ll get it all home!

Later this afternoon, many of us took an optional excursion to the coastal city of Marseilles – a truly magical city with a strong North African influence. After a bit of sightseeing, we also had time to enjoy a drink along the waterfront. Although it’s nearly the end of October, we’ve been blessed with summer-like weather with temperatures around 24 degrees! Absolute bliss.