explore marseille
in 33 things
This isn’t a normal guide book, with lists of where to drink, eat and sleep. After all, what makes a good bar is subjective and places come and go.
This is really an activity book, a way to experience Marseille through 33 quintessential things that everyone should do in the Mediterranean city that chef Anthony Bourdain described as being “not France, in the best possible way.”
These 33 things illustrate how the city’s language has changed, if not its taste buds, the stories told through its wars and literature and the changes in social fabric outlined in its palaces and housing. Add in where to swim, what to cook and how to get about, and everyone might just agree with writer Jean-Claude Izzo that “wherever you are from, you feel at home in Marseille.”
Best of all, it fits in your phone and a lot of it costs nothing or next to nothing at all to do.