Summer kit

Here are things to do around and in Marseilles

Whitin Marseilles, I think that having a drink on “La Plaine” or the “Cours Julien” is so pleasant when it’s sunny or almost the night :) You can also walk around the Panier, go to an exposition in the “Vieille Charité” and have a photoshoot as you are surrounded with many beautiful graffitis. Moreover, going to “La Bonne mère” at sunset with a pizza and anyone you want is so cool and memorable ! Lastly, not too far from the centre you have several beaches where you can go and play volleyball, it’s always nice to have parties there knowing that you can have fun in the sea when it’s too hot. A little further from the centre you have the calanques. The one that you must do are:

Calanque de Sugiton

 

Calanque de Sormiou

 

Calanque Marseilleveyre

 

Les goudes

 

If you have a car, you can also go to a famous and marvellous lake, the “Verdon”. There you can do kayak, swim in the transparent water and if you want to stay for more than one day, there are plenty of campsites around it and you might be surprised because some of them are not so expensive. Talking about camping, there is also a mountain that you can access by public transport where you can walk and do camping, just inform yourself and don’t stay there to do anything.

Don’t be afraid to also take the train to go for example to Cassis, on the “Côte Bleue” or to La Ciotat

In Cassis

En Vau

 

Port Miou

 

Côte bleue

Méjean

 

Niolon

 

If you are someone that likes to walk, the access of all these calanques are always accompanied with walks of around thirty minutes. If you really want to walk, I recommend the “Sentier des douaniers”, between Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer and Bandol. You can also start from Bandol as it goes further than this city, if you don’t want to go too far.

 

Well in summer you also need to take time for you, thus good series, movies and books recommendations are always welcomed. I have done a survey on social media on my friend’s favourite books, series and movies so I could discover new things and I thought that it was a good idea to share it with you. So, you should give a try to:

Series

-          Cable Girls, by Ramon Campos and Gema R. Neira, original name “Las chicas del Cable”

-          Brooklyn 99, by Dan Goor and Michael Schur

-          Stranger things, by the brothers Matt and Ross Duffer. Don’t forget a new season has just arrived

-          The outsiders, by Francis Ford Coppola

-          YOU, by Greg Berlanti

-          The end of the f***ing world, by Jonathan Entwistle

-          Tiny Pretty things, by Michael MacLennan

Movies

-          Pretty Woman, by Garry Marshall

-          The Grand Budapest hotel, by Wes Anderson

-          Edward Scissorshands, a 1990 American fantasy romance film directed by Tim Burton

-          Avatar, by James Cameron

-          Kung fu Panda, by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson, nice to watch it with your little brother(s) or sister(s)

-          8 miles, by Curtis Hanson

-          Kill Bill, vol. 1 and vol. 2, by Quentin Tarantino

-          The Birds, by Albert Hitchcock

-          Rebecca, by Albert Hitchcock

-          Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino

-          Rain Man, by Barry Levinson

-          Forrest Gump, by Robert Zemeckis

-          The Notebook, by Nick Cassavetes

-          Little women, by Greta Gerwig

-          The mask, by Chuck Russell

-          Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, by Arthur Harari

-          Perks of being a wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

-          The Dirt, by Jeff Tremaine

-          Boywood, by Richard Linklater

-          The Godfather, by Francis Ford Coppola

-          The Pianist, by Roman Polanski

-          “La Haine”, by Mathieu Kassovitz

-          Shutter Island, by Martin Scorsese

-          Parasite, by Bong Joon-ho

-          Black Box, by Yann Gozlan

Books

-          Circe, by Madeline Miller

-          Witches by Mona Chollet, original name “Sorcières”, it's a French book.

-          The mirror pass, original name “Le passe-miroir”, it’s also a French book, by Christelle Dabos. It’s a cycle of fantasy novels.

-          They both die at the end, by Adam Silevra

-          All of a yellow sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

-          Seven seconds, by Tom Easton

-          The immoralist, by André Gide, it’s a French book the original name is “L’immoraliste”

-          The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

-          Fundation, by Isaac Asimov

-          The master and the Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov

-          A series of unfortunate events, by Daniel Handler

Movies recommendations by teachers

-          Ridicule, a French movie by Patrice Leconte, this one was recommended by Mr. L’Evêque in class and by my French teacher.

By Mr. Leah:

-          Some like it hot, by Billie Wilder

-          Moonlight, by Berry Jenkins

-          Boys don’t cry, by Kimberly Peirce

-          The Piano, by Jane Campion

-          Before sunrise/ sunset/ midnight, by Richard Linklater

 

Don’t forget to rest and have time where you just let your mind rest. Also, stay organised if you have any readings, work, apartments or work to search, so your holidays will remain a great memory ;) All in all, have a lot of fun, you have accomplished so many things this year and you can be really proud of you, you deserve to be happy this summer! Well, I know for most of you the end of the year is not here yet but you are going to make it, good luck ^^

Maïa