8 Nov

 Walked up the hill away from the shoreline to visit the Marc Chagall museum. First museum inaugurated by the artist themselves. A large room with massive paintings of his interpretations of bible stories. Another room that had chairs in front of five paintings which had a rose-colour scheme. Each chair had a little cylinder on the arm with a slot in the top. On the wall there was an explanation/invitation, and a tub of perfume test-strips. So you dipped the strip into the container and sat down to smell the perfume associated with each painting and experience it in a multi-sensory way.

Walked back down to old town and had socca, arrocas, and fried zucchini flowers. Amazing.

Walked around to the old port and back around the waterfront to get to the start point of the mystery, interactive, tour game thing I bought. Paddled in the Mediterranean. Went into a beautiful little chocolate shop I bought some fruit jellies which were amazingly soft and real-fruit tasting.

We did some of the mystery tour, then abandoned to go MAMAC. Got a weird but beautiful icecream-macaron sandwhich thing on the way. Fave at MAMAC was Niki de Saint Phalle.

Had spritzes in old town - aperol and st germain, then found a brasserie that had a guy playing piano. Had snails, french onion soup, spaghettii vongoles, gnocchi with truffles and burrata. Complementary limoncello.

22,492 steps

15.12 km

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