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Objet: | Marseille D0 workshop: social events information |
Dear Participants at the D0 workshop in Marseille, The scientific program is available at: http://marwww.in2p3.fr/~duperrin/Marseille-D0WS/Agenda/marseille-v10AD-July-13.pdf Also, please find some information about the social events during the D0 workshop in Marseille: - Thursday 29 July 2010 (17h30-19h30) Welcome at the "Marseillois" http://www.lemarseillois.com/index_eng.html (with 3 short and funny speeches) Location: Quai du Port, 13002 Marseille. Google map: http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=Quai+du+Port,+Marseille&sll=46.75984,1.738281&sspn=6.804882,15.402832&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Quai+du+Port,+13002+Marseille,+Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne,+Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te+d'Azur&ll=43.297245,5.371048&spn=0.007059,0.015042&z=16 - Sunday 01 August 2010 (9h00-18h30) * Visit to "Cassis" (45' minutes by conference bus) Nobel Prize for literature winner, Frederic Mistral, said: "who has seen Paris and who hasn't seen Cassis can say: I have seen nothing" (!!) http://www.ot-cassis.com/index_us.php In Cassis, you will be free to choose your restaurant and have a boat trip around the "Calanques" (from 45 min in boat for 3 Calanques to 1h30 for 8 Calanques with great pictures of the cliffs along the shore). Prices range between 10 and 20 euros per person. You just show up 40 minutes before the time you want to take the tour and stand in line (from the port). It may be busy at this time of the summer! See for instance: http://www.calanques-cassis.com/ We will meet at 9AM, on the old port of Marseille with a bus departure to Cassis at 9:20AM. Google map: http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=43.295945,5.374289&num=1&sll=43.297612,5.381042&sspn=0.130002,0.256119&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=43.296097,5.374171&spn=0.000882,0.00188&z=19 Departure from Cassis: 16h15 sharp! * Stop by "Notre de la Garde" (45') on the way back from Cassis (from 16h45 to 17h30) "Notre Bonne Mere" ("our good mother") is a basilica located at the highest natural point in Marseille (532 ft) where you can have a nice panoramic view of the sea and of the city. Google map: http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=Notre-Dame+de+la+Garde,+Marseille&sll=43.296097,5.374171&sspn=0.000882,0.00188&g=43.295945,5.374289&ie=UTF8&hq=Basilique+Notre+Dame+de+la+Garde&hnear=Basilique+Notre+Dame+de+la+Garde,+Mont%C3%A9e+de+la+Bonne+M%C3%A8re,+13006+Marseille,+Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne,+Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te+d'Azur&ll=43.291701,5.371456&spn=0.026676,0.060167&z=14 We will probably be back at the Marseille old port around 19h. - Monday 02 August 2010 (20h-22h) Banquet at "Chez Fonfon" restaurant, at 20h. http://www.chez-fonfon.com/index.php?lang=EN in the Vallon des Auffes (15' by public bus from the center of Marseille). Fish menu (vegetarian meals can also be provided). Location: 140 Rue du Vallon des Auffes, 13007 Marseille Google map: http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=Chez+Fonfon,+Marseille&sll=43.291701,5.371456&sspn=0.026676,0.060167&ie=UTF8&hq=Chez+Fonfon,&hnear=Marseille,+Bouches-du-Rh%C3%B4ne,+Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te+d'Azur&ll=43.298198,5.3512&spn=0.053347,0.120335&z=13 Take the public bus (you can buy a ticket inside the bus to the driver for 1.4 euro). Take the line 83, you can start at the station called "Metro Vieux Port" (see the map below) and stop at the station called "Vallon des Auffes" and take the stairs just behind to reach the restaurant "Chez Fonfon". Take the bus around 19h or 19h15 at "Metro Vieux Port". The last bus is at 21h18 so we will have to find a solution (we may provide a conf bus - stay tuned). see the bus stops: http://85.31.207.119/SITERTM_WEB/PagesFlash/pdf/83plan.pdf Looking forward to welcoming you in Marseille! And if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. My cell phone number is [please request for it by e-mail] (if dialing from France, just dial: [please request for it by e-mail] with the zero). Arnaud Duperrin for the local organizing committee: Angelique Pepe (secretariat), Smain Kermiche, A.D. |