Cannes in the sun.

Arriving in Cannes with the mountains in the background covered in cloud we could have been coming into Porthcawl.

The two towns have many similarities; both have harbours full of luxury ships, lovely beaches and are famous for their festivals. Cannes has it's film festival whereas Porthcawl has it's equally famous Elvis festival every September. Perhaps that's where the similarities end.

Cannes is the only port on this trip where we have to be tendered ashore, a process that can sometimes be quite tedious. Today it was very well organised and by 10.00 we were ashore and phoning Helena and Victoria under a beautiful blue sky.

People had commented that there was little to do in Cannes, with many from the ship opting to take the organised trips to Monaco and other locations along the Riviera, we decided to stay local and explore. We walked along the quayside viewing the yachts ,many of which were registered in London, towards the Conference centre, the home of the famous film festival. Many of the movie stars had their hand prints in the pavement similar to the Hollywood walk of fame, we spotted Meryl Streep and Michael Douglas among others.

We then doubled back on ourselves and headed up a large number of steps.........

....towards the old town and spendid views across the bay.

The shops in Cannes were a mixture of high end stores, such as Gucci and Rolex , inter mixed with the normal touristy t-shirt and souvenir shops. We window shopped in both and also visited the local market. The weather was getting hotter as the day progressed so we made our way back to the ship.

After a light lunch Sylvia decided to have a go at painting a scene from our morning's expedition. As she was showing me the finished article on our balcony people from above commented how good it was. I think you'll agree.

Tomorrow we visit Civitavecchia, the port for Rome.

 

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