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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
New Pop-Up Campsite Opens Just Outside Marseille
So they finally made it: a group of young artists, architects and people simply in search of a cheap place to stay have created Marseille's first campsite, which receives its first visitors today. Financed mainly through the crowdfunding site Kiss Kiss Bank Bank and built by volunteers, the site, called Yes We Camp, offers a colourful mix of sleeping options, including tents, yurts, caravans, modular units and cabanons (the Marseille version of "cabins") on stilts as well as spaces for artists-in-residence. Click here to read more
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Marseille
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