The Motto of the City of Marseille: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis.
"By her great deeds, Marseille shines in the world".
After leaving "the hotel with no name" I asked for directions to the "Place Alexander Labadie" because I had Madam Botella's name and address written down on a piece of paper I had carried from England as a likely place to stay in Marseille.
I was actually VERY close to Madam Botella's (within a couple of hundred mters) but when I got to her address I did not see her name on the brass plate at her front door - this was totally my fault, as the name was there, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR! Oh well, it was not meant to be and I pressed on walking downhill slightly, which seemed like a good idea with my heavy bag :-) (I'm travelling light, remember?).
Anyway, I burst out of this residential area into the
Allees Leon Gambetta, a significant road that leads down through Marseille to join the
La Canebière thoroughfare. The first hotel I saw was the Hotel Gambetta - in I went. Following a brief discussion, I had a small, clean room for the night for 27 Euros (18 UK Pounds or 36 US Dollars approx.). This was more like it! I just needed Wireless
Internet access and I could see myself being settled here for two weeks - not to be, unfotunately. I got several intermittent signals but nothing reliable and nothing that was a public access network anyway.
So I stayed at the Hotel Gambetta for just one night and in the morning set off again in my quest for an inexpensive hotel and free Wireless
Internet access.
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