perjalanan ke Marseille

so, finally i was not able to manage the story about travelling to marseille it was two weeks ago but I am very busy and don't

have time to write in my blogs;

I got called from my Chief, his in Marseille and his very happy I could visit him, because he not have a lot vacation he will back soon to Kuala.

so I aggree to visit him with confition, If I could get the ticket.

the next day, aku cari info how to go there, well pada dasarnya kita bisa ke Marseille dengan pesawat atau TGV, kalau di Air France ada over utk pergi ke Marseille PP dengan hanya 100 - 120 €. yaa cuman masalahnya ngga bisa ke sana pas weekend akhirnya aku putusin naik TGV, this opportunities nyobain kereta listrik cepat di europa

aku pernah punya cita-cita naik ini, alhamdulillah kesampean juga. the fastest way to get ticket bisa access www.sncf.fr, ini kayak PJKA di indonesia; kita beli ticket Online

wah kalau ini bisa di lakukan di indonesia aku yakin para calo pada melongo hahaha.

basicly sama kayak semua ticketting online, kita tentuin jadwal dan jam, kemudian kita bayar dengan credit card atau ATM ( carte de bleu ) untuk beli ticket online ini,

cuman masalahnya waktu itu aku belum punya ATM atau credit card, akhirnya aku buat deal dengan temanku untuk gunain credit card dia dan aku kasih cash uang nya

kedia, and François setuju, akhirnya aku dapat confirmation ticketnya lewat email dalam bentuk PDF tertulis nama dan tujuan, jam serta nomor kereta, cuma selebar kertas

dengan complete bar code. aku sedikit ngga yakin dengan ini sampai aku nanya berkali-kali dan temenku bilang yes, it should work with that, c'est tout.

system ini canggih bener2 bisa ngilangin calo dan antrian di gambir hehehe.

TGV

hari jumat aku pulang agak cepet sekitar jam 4 sore padahal kereta terakhir yg tujuan marseille jam 19.20, tapi karena ini first time I should prepare and see the situation, dari office spt biasa naik buse ke pont de sévres terus naik metro line 9 dan stop di stasiun Franklin D Roosevelt terus ganti metro line 1 ke Gare de Lyon, di sini ternyata salah satu dari beberapa stasiun TGV lumayan gede banget dan banyak orang karena weekend banyak yang PJKA juga disini alias Pulang Jumat Kembali Ahad, dan setiap ada jadwal yang datang selalu orang menuju ke TGV, in fact kita bisa beli juga ticket ddari automatic machine just last minute before you go, cuma biasanya kalau kita take in advance jadwal misalnya beli over internet bisa dapat ticket lebih murah 20% dari harga normal, misalnya masih di indonesia terus mau travelling ke France bisa online order dari jauh-jauh hari dengan konsekwensi tiketnya non refundable.

karena masih ngga yakin denga tiket kertas tadi aku tanya ke officer disana dan dia bilang this OK, not happy with her answer because she english not good and my Francais also bad, aku nanya ke beberapa petugas sampai ada yang speak english better than the other, he said this absolutely right ticket cause you bought from internet and this valid ticket, donc c'est clear. merci monsieur, je comprix.

Ini photo special buat carlos francis

setelah nunggu beberapa sampe pegel akhirnya kereta aku datang dan berada di line yellow artinya aku harus ke bagian lain dari stasiun Gare de Lyon, gila kayak lebaran di indonesia karena banyak orang pulang untuk weekend dan ini musim liburan jadi banyak anak2 sekolah dari luar paris datang ke paris untuk liat menara eiffel heheheheh norak juga yaa kayak kita mungkin ada beberapa diantara kita belum naik ke monas hahahahhahaha kalau ngga salah terakhir ke monas SD, anaku Khansa aja lebih tahu KL tower dari pada monas, karena terus terang emang di belum pernah ke Monas, next time deh kalau aku cuti aku ajak dia ke monas to be proud with what we have that I our founding father also can create good monumen, event not enough because now the people are running to create new Mall,

setelah naik kerete dan nemu tempat duduk ngga lama kereta jalan, oh ya kereta ini ada dua level kalau ngga salah di tingkat atas kelas 1, cuma kalau liat ngga banya bedanya antara kelas satu dan kelas dua cuman untuk kelas 1 jarak untuk kaki lebih panjang jadi lebih enak aja, anyway this OK only 3 jam saja untuk jarak 800KM more less sama dengan jakarta surabaya dan selama naik kereta ngga berisik sama sekali dan cukup nyaman perjalanan cukup mulus. cuman sayang utk ticket lebih dari 65€ segelas air pun ngga ada, heheheheh tapi kita bisa beli makanan atau minuman di restorasi dengan harga yang cukup mahal, dan disini restorasi ngga jalan2, cukup kita yang datang kalau kita perlu and is emporter alias take away. karena aku udah beli minum dan sandwich is Ok for 3 hours, lumayan bisa istirahat nyaman kog TGVnya.

akhirnya sampe di marseille jam 11.30 sekitar 10 menit sebelumnya Malek Call and mention he will pickup me in station, and i few 15 minutes after arrive in Marseille his come with his Smile heheheh, I didn't saw him since last year, I left Malaysia.

so his driving to his house and he completely lost Marseille his like foreigner is his home town, he said Marseille changed a lot, finaly we arrive in his house and at the time he had some friend for small dinner, and his wife gave me marrocaine sup, it is very nice and we talk a lot until finaly we notice that is already 2 am, and we go for sleep, during the chat his wife serving me Mint Tea, speaciality for Marroc, she also told me how to make this tea, is very nice tea really nice, thank for the tea Sadia, it's very good tea, I will try your receipt sometimes.

Vieux port

in the morning Malek asked me to go with him to service center to change oil for the car, after change the oil, he took me to some place in marseille like museum zoological and some place like vieux port, its very nice, and we cross the tunnel under the sea to go one place; is market the biggest market in Marseille when you can find anything and I found a lot halal food, specially beef halal, wow Marseille is feel like at home, is not easy to find halal food in Paris, so he bring me some sosis and marquez ( sosis for algerian / arabic country ), thank Chief for your kind and attention.

me at zoological museum

we back to home and stop to buy th french bread, the good one is called bannete, in fact his right the bread is different, so finally we do barceque and during that barbecque we discuss about cheeses because there so many cheeses, and I learn a lot about cheeses,

in the night we visit some place in marseille, is very nice place very different compare with paris, from the building and architec complete different, you feel like in mediteranian country rather feel in france he;eheheh;he, infact I would like stay in marseille longer than for weekend but I have many things todo in Paris, but for sure I will visit Marseille sometimes, so he also invite me to have some dinner in vieux port and I choose La bouyabase, special food from marseille, disini orang lebih suka makan ikan dari pada daging atau porc, karena ikan mudah didapat disini.

Jembatan membelah Karang

mediteraniean sea

Malek avec Sabry

in the night we visit some place in marseille, is very nice place very different compare with paris, from the building and architec complete different, you feel like in mediteranian country rather feel in france he;eheheh;he, infact I would like stay in marseille longer than for weekend but I have many things todo in Paris, but for sure I will visit Marseille sometimes, so he also invite me to have some dinner in vieux port and I choose La bouyabase, special food from marseille, disini orang lebih suka makan ikan dari pada daging atau porc, karena ikan mudah didapat disini.

so it's very nice weekend, thank a lot for very good weekend boss and your hospitality. wish you allways happy, have good life and success in your carrier, may Allah bless you and your family