Cassis - Day Six

I woke up at David's house:

Yeah, it's that awesome. He lives about 100 meters from the beach.

Yeah, that beach. Unbelievable. As you can see we are dressed to expend some energy. We drove to the Calanque's near Cassis to hike out to the point and have a picnic. We had made lunch before we left the house, packed it, took off and hiked way out to the tip of the Calanque de Port Pin.

Here is the view at the beginning of the hike.

And as we make the trek...

The city in the background to the right of that Calanque is Cassis.

All of us were not sure what this was:

I said that it was a port to collect things from ships back in the day. David didn't agree as he thought that from the porthole to the water was too far to work for ships. When we got back to his house, we found out that I was basically correct:
              You can still see ancient stone structures that were once used to load the tartins, sailing ships that transported the stone.

Here is where we stopped for our picnic:

Awesome, right?

And then on our way back, we stopped at an inlet and took a nap.

Then we headed back...

Yep, I'm a dork. Once we got back, we drove to the highest cliffs in France, overlooking Cassis and where we ate lunch. Hopefully this can give you some perspective.

We started the hike on the other side of the water, directly behind us in the picture above. Then we walked all the way out the the point on the far left of the picture. It was about 5 miles round trip. This is what we saw up on top of these cliffs:

 That is Cassis

From the cliffs, we took the back road down the cliff, to David's house and then David and Rachel made dinner. This is Escargo.

We also had a rotisserie chicken, hung out, had some wine, ate some food and then crashed as we had to get up early in the AM to catch the train to Marseilles and then a plane from there to Barcelona.

I have to say, this part of the trip with Rachel was wonderful. This day was actually my favorite of the trip as without Rachel and David, we would not have gone to the Calanques, or seen what we saw. It was super awesome and I am very thankful and grateful for their hospitality.