Surprisingly there is evidence that Cannes dates back to the Romans in the 3rd century. Most recorded history takes it back to about the 10th century, which still is surprising. Most of us really thought that it dated not much earlier than when Bette Davis took home the Best Actress prize at the 4th Cannes Film Festival in 1951 for her role as Margo Channing in “All About Eve”.
Now Cannes is synonymous with glamour, high fashion, big yachts, and fast cars. But there is still a part of Cannes that remains that is about 400 years old called Le Suquet.
The streets are steep and winding and some are just staircases.
But this district is filled with restaurants and come evening will be open and busy. At the top of the hill overlooking Cannes you’ll find this marquee.
Back on level ground we walked along the Croisette. The Croisette is world famous and runs along the beach from one end of Cannes to the other. At the old town end there was a small kiddie amusement park that was operating inside a park on the Croisette.
We also found this church – finally one for us, “Our Lady of Good Trips”. Hah.
Soon we were wandering around the main shopping area of Cannes. As usual in France it’s nice to stop into the bakeries and patisseries and this time was no different. These are strawberry shortcake Santas!
We also stopped into the main Cannes Market just for a moment. Found some lovely pastas and cheese.
Soon enough, however, we were back in the vicinity of our hotel as well as another grand hotel in Cannes. The Carlton really is white, that is the Mediterranean sunset reflecting on the building.
And then home sweet home.
It’s impossible not to love the French Riviera!
