South of France - Part III
2/10/05
Back in Aix, we finally had some rest, spent the day just hanging around in bookstores, sporting stores and theater.
2/11/05
The next day was the opposite of a resting day. Karim, Angie and I left in the morning to the Calanques, huge creeks in the rocky shore of Cassis, where you find trails along the cliffs.
The water in the Calanques has a crystal blue color, sharply switching from clear to dark that you can see even on a cloudy day like the one we had.
Even being so small, and having so much space to crawl, these bugs somehow managed to create a traffic jam.
Roberto and França would just go crazy here. There are over 3.400 conquered and catalogued routes to climb of all levels and God knows how many more waiting to be conquered.
To climb here is like walking over blue water and the scenery is breath taking. Angelique was almost crying for not having the gear to climb, it was fun to watch her desperate face.
After 2h of hike we turned around and walked back to the car. From there we drove through the Route des Crêtes to a place where there are caves on the cliffs facing the Mediterranean. One of the caves is even set with a big table for partying and provided with candles all over its extense by some of the people that use to camp here.
2/12/05
An unpleasant surprise.
This morning I had to move the car to another parking spot before 8AM, otherwise we would get a fine.Well, I woke up late, 8:20AM, and I couldn't find my pants. Everybody (Angie, Marjolaine, Karim and I) was sleeping in the same room and because of the noise I was making Angie woke up too, she suggested that I should go to move the car in my pyjamas anyway, or we would have a fine.
Ok, but I couldn't go without my driving license, that was, of course, in my wallet in the pocket of my missing pants. At this point everybody was awake, Karim offered help and came with me to move the car. We left the apartment and for my surprise we found my wallet on the floor by the door of the building, without the money (around $200 and €40).
It took me a few seconds to realize and a couple more to believe, but, we had been robbed.
On the way to the car I found on the middle of the street another piece, a lip balm, that was in my jeans' pocket, just few meters away from our door.Well, we found the wallet and the lip balm, but my jeans was still missing. We looked for it on the streets and in the garbage bins on the way to the car but couldn't find it. Damn!!.
That wasn't a lucky day, we didn't find another free parking place for the car and decided to come back to Marjolaine's apt with the car and leave it in a not allowed parking spot. When we got back in the apt, Marjolaine told us her hand bag was also missing, she called the police and they said that we had to go to the police station, so we did it.
There we spoke to a cop that asked to come back after 2PM and gave us another number to call, for the investigation team to come and to take a look in the apt, but he warned us, for a small case like this, they wouldn't work in the weekend, we had then to wait until Monday for them to come.
Marjolaine decided to talk to the neighbors upstairs to see if they heard anything. To her surprise, her bag was by the stairs on the next floor. The neighbors didn't hear anything on that night but one of them came back home after 2:30h in the morning, and he said that the bag wasn't there yet, which means, the robber came after that.
At 2PM Marjolaine and I, Adriano, went back to the police to register the case and we brought the bag taken by the robber. Right at the reception the policeman already told us that is not possible to track digitals on those materials. Anyway, Marjolaine has now a official register of the case with the police and she can try to recover the money with her insurance. Around 4PM we departed to Dettwiller. Adriano on pyjamas. :D
Back in Aix, we finally had some rest, spent the day just hanging around in bookstores, sporting stores and theater.
2/11/05
The next day was the opposite of a resting day. Karim, Angie and I left in the morning to the Calanques, huge creeks in the rocky shore of Cassis, where you find trails along the cliffs.
The water in the Calanques has a crystal blue color, sharply switching from clear to dark that you can see even on a cloudy day like the one we had.
Even being so small, and having so much space to crawl, these bugs somehow managed to create a traffic jam.
Roberto and França would just go crazy here. There are over 3.400 conquered and catalogued routes to climb of all levels and God knows how many more waiting to be conquered.
To climb here is like walking over blue water and the scenery is breath taking. Angelique was almost crying for not having the gear to climb, it was fun to watch her desperate face.
After 2h of hike we turned around and walked back to the car. From there we drove through the Route des Crêtes to a place where there are caves on the cliffs facing the Mediterranean. One of the caves is even set with a big table for partying and provided with candles all over its extense by some of the people that use to camp here.
2/12/05
An unpleasant surprise.
This morning I had to move the car to another parking spot before 8AM, otherwise we would get a fine.Well, I woke up late, 8:20AM, and I couldn't find my pants. Everybody (Angie, Marjolaine, Karim and I) was sleeping in the same room and because of the noise I was making Angie woke up too, she suggested that I should go to move the car in my pyjamas anyway, or we would have a fine.
Ok, but I couldn't go without my driving license, that was, of course, in my wallet in the pocket of my missing pants. At this point everybody was awake, Karim offered help and came with me to move the car. We left the apartment and for my surprise we found my wallet on the floor by the door of the building, without the money (around $200 and €40).
It took me a few seconds to realize and a couple more to believe, but, we had been robbed.
On the way to the car I found on the middle of the street another piece, a lip balm, that was in my jeans' pocket, just few meters away from our door.Well, we found the wallet and the lip balm, but my jeans was still missing. We looked for it on the streets and in the garbage bins on the way to the car but couldn't find it. Damn!!.
That wasn't a lucky day, we didn't find another free parking place for the car and decided to come back to Marjolaine's apt with the car and leave it in a not allowed parking spot. When we got back in the apt, Marjolaine told us her hand bag was also missing, she called the police and they said that we had to go to the police station, so we did it.
There we spoke to a cop that asked to come back after 2PM and gave us another number to call, for the investigation team to come and to take a look in the apt, but he warned us, for a small case like this, they wouldn't work in the weekend, we had then to wait until Monday for them to come.
Marjolaine decided to talk to the neighbors upstairs to see if they heard anything. To her surprise, her bag was by the stairs on the next floor. The neighbors didn't hear anything on that night but one of them came back home after 2:30h in the morning, and he said that the bag wasn't there yet, which means, the robber came after that.
At 2PM Marjolaine and I, Adriano, went back to the police to register the case and we brought the bag taken by the robber. Right at the reception the policeman already told us that is not possible to track digitals on those materials. Anyway, Marjolaine has now a official register of the case with the police and she can try to recover the money with her insurance. Around 4PM we departed to Dettwiller. Adriano on pyjamas. :D
posted by Adriano and Angie | 3:24 PM
4 Comments:
chère Angélique et cher Adriano,
si je ne me trompe pas, votre "vrai" tour du monde démarre dans 2 jours. Nous voulions rapidement vous souhaiter bonne chance en espérant que vous vivrez des aventures un peu plus drôles que celles d'Aix...Surtout ouvrez grands vos yeux et votre coeur à l'occasion de toutes ces découvertes et rencontres qui ne peuvent être qu'enrichissantes.
A lire vos résumés précédents, je constate que finalement sur notre planète, c'est le sud de la France qui vous attend, pourquoi aller s'installer tellement loin au Brésil alors que le bonheur vous attend ici chez nous ?
Bonne route à vous deux et à bientôt
Mireille, Gérard, Alissia et Amalia
Dear Adriano and Angelique:
Hello from Arizona - what an adventure. We are following it with you and enjoying every picture and journal entry. Stay safe.
Tom and Jan
Darlings, I feel lonely without you.. the pictures are gorgeous though... I will enjoy exploring the world vicariously through you. Also by mid-March I plan to finalize my Australian trip (registration for summer semester starts March14), so you really have to send me the details - I do cherish a dream of meeting up with you there.
and, perhaps, I should have added that it was a message from Victoria:)
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