Author Archives: Jim@HiTek

As I said last issue, my last two days were not all that noteworthy. I just wandered around town, took a 2nd leisurely trip out to If Castle, gawked at the ocean and the cool sailboats in the harbor, and the … Continue reading →

So today’s plan was to walk past the harbor, visit the fort overlooking the harbor entrance, retrace my steps back to board the subway, to the train station, hop on the Cassis train, make my way to the Cassis Harbor by bus … Continue reading →

Another beautiful day in Marseille…I was NOT regretting my decision to travel down here. Another beginning to what looked like a weather perfect day. What was happening though was that we had a very early morning rainstorm. I could feel … Continue reading →

The previous evening, I’d enjoyed eating out and then an excursion to the bar at the park before settling in at the apartment. My host didn’t get home until around nightfall, which at this time of the year was at 8:30 … Continue reading →

The day arrived, and off I went to the Gare Lyon train station to get out of this wet weather by traveling to Marseille by high speed train. Cost was 93€ for a 1st class ticket. First class gets you better, … Continue reading →

After my day off, due mainly to weather, I couldn’t just sit in the house another whole day, even though the weather was just as bad as yesterday. I did ask for, and received, permission to stay another 2 days in … Continue reading →

I took another day off, my 8th day in Paris, because it was stormy and raining like crazy off and on all day. Stayed in the apartment and researched places to travel and things to visit, collected and saved new links … Continue reading →

I wanted to visit Versailles, often recommended by tour guides and travel experts as a must see attraction in not only Paris, but France, and all of Europe. OK, well, with all that hype, it must be pretty special. From where … Continue reading →

As I said last time, I took a day off, and stayed in the apartment all day except for a couple three interesting excursions. One was to see if my host was right about how close to the subway we were…he … Continue reading →

I was comfortable at the hostel, but it was time to move on since I had reservations for a flat in Paris that looked really nice on AirBnB. This morning was a traveling day and after my shower, gathered all my … Continue reading →