Martigues?

[Grehan]

I've just found an old post on YBW that expounds the merits of Martigues, near the mouth of the Rhone. Connects by the Canal de Caronte to the Etang de Berre.
Anybody been there recently? Is the canal/etang navigable to any degree?

 

[trouville]

Not for a while but when theres not much wind about at night your fittings will disolve your deck will be coverd buy red green or a mixture and the air if you go on deck will be unbreathable!!

More or less like that as the chemical industry assume a lot of wind to difuse their pollution and keep the plauge of mosquitoes away!

I read about the mosquitoes and its often on the TV when i watch it in a cafe a safe distance from there!!!

Oh yes if you call in the chips they sell on the port are soggy!Otherwise i quite liked the town

 

[vyv_cox]

The canal is certainly navigable, it is used by shipping. We were put off going there by the plume of orange smog that hung over it, instead turning left and heading up to Port St Louis. This was very reasonably priced, quite a nice little place and well sheltered from the Tramontane.

 

[chrisc]

yes the town is nice /several decent restaurants but you have to motor past the industrial harbour first and then past the ,permanently rigged fishing nets and under the bridge (by mr Eiffel) well worth the trip and half the price to overwinter that port nap is.40 minutes (on train )to Marseilles,and twenty minutes to the airport.