{"id":6641,"date":"2023-05-17T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2023-05-23T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:28:29","slug":"vlog-marseille-is-actually-super-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/vlog-marseille-is-actually-super-lovely\/","title":{"rendered":"Vlog | Marseille is actually super lovely"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I spent Spring break in Marseille with my partner and his classmates. I heard so many sour things about this city. When I was younger, this wouldn\u2019t have bothered me. At 19, family and friends discouraged me from going to Turkey, but I still travelled the country solo for a month. I got a job in a \u2018dodgy suburb\u2019 when I was 20 and walked through the streets to the train late at night. I always thought: I have as much right to be somewhere as someone else. Danger doesn’t own public space. I can also define it.<\/p>

Now, I\u2019m too tired of things gone wrong. I hate the exploitation of feeling frightened. I want my grasp of place to be rooted in peace.<\/p>

So, at first, I didn\u2019t plan to visit Marseille. But then I learnt about a direct train there from Lille. I needed the warm weather. Then I learnt all this fearmongering was (mostly) bs.<\/p>

I know I always talk about the weather, and simple things. But the sun and water, the food, the shopping, the views, the crowds all defrosted me (and my misconceptions lol). I really think anytime someone has told me somewhere is dangerous, it\u2019s just a covert way to say an area isn\u2019t that white.<\/p>

Places are complex to judge. They are an abundance beyond us. As a visitor, we only need some faith in them & cognisance to pull apart bias and power and difference. We aren\u2019t there for long. We all deserve to be everywhere.<\/p>

On a side note, my travel confidence is a bit hit. I feel like I get sick anytime I travel and need to have so much downtime. I enjoy my footage when I feel well weeks later more than being there in the moment. I love catching new details – a cute sign, someone making a decision to do something, street art, funny conversations – through editing, and the experience of reliving my memories through music.\u00a0<\/p>

Moving abroad really messes with your immune system. I feel like a 4-year-old starting childcare and being exposed to germs for the first time. I’m not really sure on what to do.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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