Today’s Guardian has a good piece on Marseille today: its overview of the city’s culture is underscored with links to books, films and TV series, precious memories for those of us who are, at present, far away from this vibrant city: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/feb/05/marseille-virtual-tour-books-film-food-music-photography
Most visitors to the city will soon feel the passion for the local football team, the legendary Olympique de Marseille. In fact bars right across Provence are decorated with scarves and mascots in the team’s colours. But there’s trouble at the Velodrome right now – so much so that it’s knocked the global pandemic off the front pages of La Provence this week, with words like ‘catastrophe’ 
peppering its prose. I’d lost the plot so thanks again to the Guardian for sportingly providing a resume today. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/03/marseille-title-contenders-chaos-andre-villas-boas-ligue-1
I hope Marseille soon gets back to a team they are proud of….Allez l’OM!
aixcentric 
Thanks for sharing, Lynne!
Such a great city!