Marseille, the way we actually live it.
A pocket guide for anyone who'd rather live a city than tick it off — in your 20s, your 30s, or happily past both. A Marseillaise and her American best friend send you where we really swim, eat and lose track of time — never where the coaches stop.
— written from a balcony in Le Panier ✦
MRS
"Every address was a bullseye — not one tourist trap. Felt like texting a mate who actually lives there."
A good weekend here isn't about seeing everything. It's about swimming somewhere impossibly blue, eating something you can't pronounce, and staying out a little too late. We just tell you where.
Made for the ones who want the real thing.
Couples, friends, solo wanderers — in your twenties or your sixties. It was never about age: if you travel to feel a place rather than photograph it, this was written for you.
First-timers, not tourists
One weekend, and no desire to spend it queuing for the same photo as everyone else. You want the version locals would actually show you.
Returners after the real Marseille
You've done Notre-Dame and the Vieux-Port. Now you want the calanque we hike before work and the bar with no sign on the door.
Value-savvy, at any age
Great doesn't have to mean expensive — or young. So much of Marseille is free or nearly: swims, viewpoints, markets, sunsets, natural-wine apéros. We just tell you exactly where.
Like borrowing two friends who happen to live here.
Vetted by locals
If we wouldn't send our own visiting friends there, it doesn't make the guide. Nobody buys their way in.
Built for 3 days
Everything's ordered so a Friday-to-Sunday flows on its own — swim, apéro, dinner, rooftop — no spreadsheet needed.
Warm, plain English
No jargon, no tourist-speak. Just the way we'd tell you over a coffee on the Vieux-Port.
Four spots, free. To prove we mean it.
A calanque, a hidden beach, a brunch and a wine bar — the real cards from the guide, no strings. The other 25 unlock with the full thing.
Free lists send you where everyone goes. This doesn't.
You can google "best things to do in Marseille" and get the same twelve tourist-menu spots as every coach tour. What you can't google: which calanque to hit before the wind turns, the exact table to book, the bar where the owner just hands you the right bottle, and the order that makes a weekend actually flow. That's what €6,99 buys — a local in your pocket, not a listicle.
Everyone's Marseille
- ✗ The same 12 spots every tourist posts
- ✗ Tourist-menu bouillabaisse at 3× the price
- ✗ No idea when to go — you meet the crowds and the wind
- ✗ A list, in no order, that you replan on the pavement
- ✗ Hours of scrolling blogs that all copy each other
Your Marseille
- ✓ 51 spots locals actually use, off the beaten track
- ✓ The tables & bars honestly worth your money
- ✓ Exact timing — beat the wind, the heat and the queues
- ✓ A ready-made 3-day weekend that just flows
- ✓ Two friends in your pocket, updated as we find gems
People came for a weekend. Some didn't leave.
Your best weekend, for the price of one good beer.
The full guide — 51 spots and a ready-made 3 days — is €6,99. Once. Yours forever.
Unlock the guide — €6,99