Sete, a port and seaside resort town in Southern France

I took a day off, and being in Montpellier, in Southern France, on the  Mediterranean, I chose to spend time in Sète. It's a small town, but not a resort town only for tourists. I hate those places which are crowded during summer time, but plain dead during winter. Sète is a real town.

Sète is a port with regular ferry lines to Morocco (Tangiers or Nador).

That makes it less glamorous than cities on the French Riviera, but more friendly.

Don't expect to see expensive yachts nor any Rolls Royce. The Hollywood people doesn't come here.

There are canals in the city. Like in Venice, but the houses and buildings are less luxurious.

Most boats belong to fishermen or locals who fancy a day on the sea.

Finally, the most well known place in Sète, its cemetery. It sounds a bit strange to have a cemetery as a landmark, but Sète's cemetery is on top of a hill just next to the shore, so the dead are overlooking the sea. There are some very famous people, most notably French writer and philosopher Paul Valery. Cemetery is on the right on the picture below.