Is it Cassis or Cassee? We are told you do not pronounce the S, so say it 'Cassee' and you should be OK!
What ever you want to call it, spend at least a day here!
It is a very pretty fishing harbour, lined with restaurants, bars and ice cream parlours.
Our normal visit is arriving 11.30, beer, then lunch, a walk around after and leave around 4 pm. Terrible.
This time we arrived 9.30, coffee, boat trip, lunch , an hour on the beach and swim in the sea, a little refreshment, some people watching, and a walk around the La presqui-ile, one of the many walks around the Callanques.
Leaving the pretty harbour.
The first of the eight 'Calanques' we visited, 'inlets', this one leading to a very protected harbour.
These 'hole in the walls' were not cash points but the stones were delivered through the holes in the walls onto the boats which took them to Marseilles for construction as we know it today.
These incredible trees, 'Pin Alep' or Alep Pines, grow right out of the rock and face the intense weather- heat, wind, rain, and yet look so healthy!
Another hidden treasure, this beach is so hard to reach. and yet when you are there...........
From here we begin to see some of the most breathtaking rock faces we have ever seen.
a number of which not only go deep into the water....
where there are under ground grotto's , but also canyons which you can Kayak through....
Again, another vast and impressive cliff face.
Simply awesome scenery.
Another isolated beach.
Us on the boat!
La Plage!
In Cassis, tourist are every where!
well they are one minute, them they are gone!
This is one of the first Callanque's we visited by boat, this time on foot late afternoon.
Do go to Cassis, do go out on a boat to the Callanques, do take lunch, do have an ice cream and do have a great day!
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