Great to be back under the blue sky of Marseille after a dawn flight from London Heathrow. Marseille feels moderate after the tropical intensity and extremes of La Réunion, even the grunge and graffiti feel familiar.
This is my first visit of 2025. It was twenty years ago that I started looking in Marseille for a small apartment with a box garage for a motorbike, having been first introduced to the attractions of Provence and the South at the GLME Summercamp of 1998.
My home is London but coming back to Marseille feels like coming home after the winter in the UK, the snow and ice of Keswick and the Indian Ocean holiday to La Réunion.