Martin & Marseille

The last entry has inspired me to give a more detailed overview of where I live - per satellite. Thanks to google for doing the hard work for me.

My École Centrale. The U-Shaped building at the top left is a student's home (not mine), the rest is ECM.

My Cité U. To the right's the University (not mine). The square above it's a Resto U, where you can get decent food for decent money.
I invite you to zoom out a bit and go the left. You can see the increasing number of huge blocks (HLMs). Welcome to the Merlan.

Our favourite place in the Calanques. This is where most people go, it's easy to get to. I can't believe I actually found it on the map....

The Vieux-Port Usually the beginning of every tour of Marseille. If you click 'Hybrid' you can find the Canebière, which leads off from the VP to the north-east. It's apparently really famous, someone wrote a song about it (so I've been told).

The title gives a hint: I'll post some pictures today.


This is my École. You can see the names it's had, the current name (École Centrale Marseille) isn't there yet. You can nearly see all of my school on this picture - it's not big.



My room. Not much larger than my room in Germany, but without the 100MBit internet connection (without any connection, in fact - phone, net... it's got water and electricity, though).



The kitchen's bloody useless. We only managed to do this dinner in the kitchen because that was when most of the rooms were still empty.



Mesdames, Messieurs, je vous presente: Marseille.



Marseille's got a lot of nature. This is in the Calanques.



The Camargues is a nature park thingy, consists mainly of swamps but is very close to the sea. Apparently there's wild horses there, but we only saw flamingos.



It's not impossible to have fun in the residence, but pretty difficult. If it's not the annoying night-watchman's shift and we dismantle our rooms to improvise a table, and the guy at the end of the corridor isn't in we can even have real feasts.



The Traversee Vieux-Port. This boat made entirely of rubbish actually won the 1st prize in the category 'speed' (this is actually true). We got free tickets for 'Le diable s'habille en Prada', so I guess we should have gone for 'style' or 'creativity'. The overall winner actually got a weekend to Lapland.