{"id":1679,"date":"2015-07-07T08:55:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.wordpress.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2015-07-07T08:55:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:55:03","slug":"cannes-antibes-french-riviera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Cannes & Antibes – French Riviera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cannes<\/strong> is, of course, known for its Film Festival<\/em>, glitz and glamour associated with the rich and famous. Outside the Palais des Festivals<\/strong>, famous actors and actresses have left their handprint and signature for us normal beings to see. Many of the names were unfamiliar, but I did recognize some such as Angelina Jolie<\/em> and Sylvester Stallone<\/em>. Some of the tiles were hidden under potted plants or carpets, though. Tough luck.<\/p>\n

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walking around the harbour<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0The walk led to Le Suquet<\/strong>, the old part of Cannes. It is located on a hill with a nice view onto the waterfront. The Mus\u00e9e de la Castre<\/strong> seemed plain and unimpressive but it was free for students to go in. The exhibition was sort of random with a collection of items from different cultures (so really nothing to do with Cannes) but it also granted us access to the 12th tower named Tour de Mt Chevalier<\/strong> which was a big hit because from there, we were overlooking all of Cannes and had a beautiful 360\u00b0C view.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0We heard that there were sandy beaches in Cannes so we had packed our best bikinis in hope to spend a relaxed afternoon. It was more difficult than we thought to find a good spot, though, large areas were occupied by beach chair rentals and restaurants\/bars, so we had to walk for quite a while until we found a spot that looked like this:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Still, we made the best out of the situation and enjoyed ourselves. The water was cool and clean so no complains there. But if you are looking for a nicer beach experience, I would suggest one of the villages along the coastline between Cannes and Monaco, that would have probably been more relaxed and agreeable. Everything with a Sur-Mer<\/em> in their name (by the sea<\/em>) should be good.<\/p>\n

Or you could go to Antibes<\/strong>, another small town between Cannes and Nice, home to the super-rich and super-decadent as well as one of the biggest yacht harbors in Europe. The quai is appropriately called Quai des Milliardaires<\/strong> (Billionaires’ quai<\/em>) so well, enough said. The yachts lying there did seem to be slightly bigger than the ones we saw elsewhere…I think.<\/p>\n

There was a fort (Fort Carr\u00e9<\/strong>) nearby which supposedly offers a great view of the harbor and city walls<\/strong>, but it was already closed so we just took a stroll along the billionaires along the walls and then headed into the old town. Which was really pretty and I guess it would have been a great location to spend a couple of days there, but we were getting tired so we hopped on a train in the most confusing train station in France and headed back to Nice.<\/p>\n

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Nomad, the man of letters by Spanish arist Jaume Plensa<\/p><\/div>\n

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This look on his face says it all<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[442],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_0585.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}