Cannes

28 Apr - Day 44

Today we left Meyrueis and headed towards Cannes. We avoided the expensive hotel breakfast in favour of a bunch of almond croissants from the bakery and started off.

There were no wide, smooth motorways for this leg of the drive. Instead, dad had to navigate the winding, twisting and usually single laned road.

I was in charge of sticking my arm out the window and taking photos of the gorge as we drove through.

After a few hours driving, we arrived in Avignon, where we had decided to stop for lunch. Avignon, in theory, should've been a very interesting city, quite medieval and still surrounded by castle walls.

We walked up along the walls for a view of the river and a bridge that for some reason is only half finished. But apart from that, the streets were completely empty and not particularly nice to look at.

We had lunch at a nice sandwich shop and decided to return to the car and continue our drive. It was only then that we stumbled upon the town's main square and found out where everything was.

A few hours later, we arrived in Cannes and were greeted by a traffic jam. We eventually arrived at the hotel, unpacked and walked into town. We passed through the Antibes shopping area on our way down to the promenande, la Croisette. The Cannes waterfront is very nice and the sun was out so it was quite a pleasant walk. There isn't too much room to enjoy the beach though, because most of it is taken up by expensive restaurants.

Seeing as we didn't want to pay 40 euros each for dinner, we went back into the town for a big salmon pizza and pasta. After this, we went out to the docks to have a look at the gigantic luxury yachts parked in the harbour.

Before heading back, we stopped by the Palais des Festival, where they hold the Cannes Film Festival. We looked along the line of handprints of who I assume are famous actors (I didn't really know any of them) and walked on the red carpet.

 

29 Apr - 45

We walked back down to the waterfront/commercial area this morning to check out the Sunday morning life in Cannes. As we expected, pretty much everything was closed except for cafes and markets so we walked up the hill to a church for a panoramic view of the Cannes seaside.

After this, we walked further along la Croisette, found Harry Potter with his face cut out and then went for lunch at a Chinese fastfood place before heading back to the hotel to rest in preparation for the afternoon.

In the afternoon, we went to Cannes' VO (version originale [non dubbed]) cinema and caught a screening of The Avengers in 3D. That was super cool.