Come Take A Walk With Me.

It always starts with a walk through the garden

Stop...savor the view & off we go, down rue  General Rose 

End of the rue and you're in the "old town" left or right on rue Gaillard & I've got choices.

Do I go down rue Barthelemy de Don?

Or... rue Siat Marcellin? 

Wandering back across rue Gaillard.

Or do I take my most often choice?

Marcellin, near the end

Pijaud to the Port

The Port is in sight at Place Michel Pacha

Aaaah.... the Port

Strolling along Quai Charles de Gaulle, about to pass the Hotel de la Tour

"Pointu" boats alongside the Quai

Beautiful Blvd. Courbet

An ancient on Coubert

Begin the Montee des Oratoires

The Montee continues, and continues...

A petite "side street" off the Montee.

Yet more up, up the Montee

Top out the Montee, stop and stroke the lavender, mind the bees!

Beyond the lavender, the little Chapelle Notre Dame de Pitie.

Arrive at Portissol, and the "old-school" Kima Plage beach club across the bay.

Looking down on Plage Portissol.

Wow... just look at that azur blue water.

Long view down the coast towards our destination, Pointe de la Cride.

Lovely view across the Baie de Portissol.

Classic home along Ave. Fredric Mistral.

Climbing up Mistral. Note the pedestrian walkway.

Alongside Mistral, it's a long way down.

Classic old home along other side of Mistral.

Another classic home along Mistral, the cigalle (cicadias) are loud here this morning.

Our destination, looking down on the old fortress at Pointe de la Cride. 

View over the rooftops onto Baie de Cousse in the Beaucours neighborhood.

Looking across Bai de Cousse.

Homes tumbling down the hillside into the Baie de Cousse.

Evocative sailboat moored near Beaucours. Bandol is in the distance.

On the return back, another of those "side-streets", this one off Ave Bir-Hakem.

View off the Montee, coming down this time.

My goal is in sight.

The object of my desire. An entirely civilized way to end a walk.

But.... it ain't over until it's over. What you come down you must go back up.  

Whew!! Back where we started. Home again.

You might call this a "linear story", as it follows the natural progression of the walk.
I've allowed the pictures to tell the story.
We do this walk most every day, weather permitting, and that's most days.  It's about 4 miles round trip and takes us just a little over an hour.
It is up and down and follows along the coast for most of the journey.
Since your never far from the water, there's almost always some stopping involved to gawk at the views.
I don't think I shall ever tire of it.
And... the beer waiting for me at the end.... well that's, as "The Nut Man" says, "it is the cherry on top"