Cap Croisette is the weathered limestone massif at the end of the peninsular from the Marseille leisure port of Pointe Rouge. A ride on urban blacktop until I reached the derelict sardine canning factories at the end of the standard bus line at la Madrague de Montredon.
Onwards with a chilly Mistral to Les Goudes, a pretty fishing village and port. Cap Croisette is the end of this road (by now just a track of weathered limestone) facing l’île Maïre across a treacherous narrow strait.
Return by much the same route but pedalling my Marin Palisades Lite against the Mistral, so a stop at a boulangerie artisanale for a hot Pissaladière à l’anchois (roughly translates as an anchovy pizza). Riding back through Parc Borély where the fountains were actually working.
