Good gracious those people!
The village and shopping sounded fantastic!
I’m not a great one to ask about Marseille as I didn’t love it. Frankly other then the color of the water I didn’t really find it remarkable. The architecture didn’t compare to what we saw in other stops and our tour guide was terrible. I wished I had just stayed on the ship and gazed at the sea! Haha
Oh, I'm just getting started with those people. It didn't take away from the trip but it made it to the point I commented on them during our tour evaluation form we are given on the end of the trip as frankly, they aren't suited for this type of group travel. They should work with a private tour operator as they wanted so much catered to them.
Not every city is going to be amazing - we had a couple places we visited that we were like, eh. Tour guides also don't help when the stop is meh! The Med is beautiful to look at!
I am just in awe of your trip. Everything looks and sounds so amazing. Those hounds are right out of the Impressions de France movie in Epcot! I forget if I already asked this - if I did, apologies - do you guys speak French? And if not was it ever an issue in your free time away from the group? That couple... what the heck?? I can't decide if I hope you do or don't run into them when you get home!
Thank you! Home now and I know this will be trip to remember. Now its back to cheap meals and such to help pay for it all. We do not speak French outside of a few basic phrases but we didn't have too many issues other than 3 times but 2 of those were fine (one of our dinners on our own and another time we were doing an activity on our own) - another I just put it up to them being really rude (When we were in line for Pirates - a person behind me kept hitting my back even after I tried to move away as much as you can in a line queue - my husband got mad for me too and said something and they just started commenting in French that we were rude English speakers)
I'm commenting on each update as I read. I didn't expect you to do this TR live! I'm glad you got meals on your flight, just too bad they weren't that good.
Well, semi-live. We had some downtime on various days so figured I might as well be useful as 19 days is going to take a long time to get through. It's airplane food so at least it was given. I don't expect amazing food.