SHORT BREAKS: 48 hours in Marseilles Sip pastis in the Vieux-Port, watch the boats bob in the autumn sun, and imagine that you are a character in a Pagnol novel... By Jim Ferguson

The Independent - London | September 22, 2001| | Copyright

WHY GO NOW?

The infernal summer temperatures have fallen to a pleasant, autumnal warmth, and frayed southern tempers, provoked by high- season congestion, are mellowing. Not that Marseilles will have lost its raw, inner-city energy, familiar to admirers and detractors alike.

BEAM DOWN

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