Day 5 - Cannes and Nice

Our original plan was to stop in Nice our first night in France but, because we got caught in Marseilles, we thought we’d head straight to Cannes so we didn’t loose another day. We dumped our backpacks in lockers at the train station and went for a wander. Cannes is obviously famous for the annual film festival but did you know it also makes satellites. Fascinating fact there! The festival is held in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès with the whole area filled with film nostalgia. Like the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but on a much smaller scale, there are actors hand prints cast in the floor. We ignored the obviously French and rubbish actors but found our hands are bigger than John Claude Van Dams, this obviously means we could take him in a fight.



Anyway, Cannes itself is a very beautiful place with a long sandy beach stretching into a crystal blue sea. It’s truly the place for the beautiful people with Aston martins cruising about and huge Yachts moored in the harbour. Again, fantastic weather! After a few hours there we get the train to Nice.

Nice is nice! We had booked a hotel with all four of us sharing a room. This was a nice change from the 12 strangers we had to stay with in Barca. We were in the oriental district of Nice which meant we could get some fantastic and cheap Chinese food. The beach was stone which meant some very uncomfortable sun bathing but the weather, like everywhere else was incredible. On the first night we had some fantastic Chinese food with everyone venturing with the chop sticks, apart from me as I have no coordination.