First up was Cannes, France. We'd been here before (when we rented a house in Ville Franche, just down the road) and knew it was a cute enough city and easy to walk and see what we wanted to see without hassling with trains or plans.
Cannes is a tender port and the tenders drop you off right in the middle of the action. Pretty much everything worth seeing is to your right as you walk out of the tender dock and along the water front.
As you can probably tell from my photos, it was raining while we were there. At best it was a drizzle and at worst it was a down pour -- s owe cut our time and touring a bit shorter than we might have otherwise.
One thing we did not do much of was check out the many gorgeous high end yachts in the harbor; it was just too wet in the area.
We did walk up to the theatre, where the film festival is headquartered, and check out the walk of fame. Here, the handprints are in metal, not concrete.
Cameron Diaz
Nick Cage
Meryl Streep
There were some pretty buildings and statues across the way too:
Heading away from the shore, to walk up the hill and more into the town, we found this mural/homage to the movies, really interesting--we loved how they worked the real windows into the paintings.
We continued up the hill, walking through the town on our way up, and through a pretty little park on the way back down.
After all that walking, we decided we should stop for a bottle of local wine (I suspect no loyal reader will be surprised by that!). The wine was excellent.
There is a small beach very near the tender port--Dave and Marika decided to wade a bit before taking the tender back to the ship:
Before we knew it, we were back on board and changing into dry clothes. Lifeboats had been used as tenders-it was interesting watching them be brought back up in the late afternoon.
Up next, simple days in La Spezia and Civitavecchia.
--Hadley
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