P v Cannes Beach

Bonjour tout le monde and welcome to my travelogue! I am spending fall semester at the College International de Cannes. Cannes is in the south of France, right on the Mediterranean, and the College is a block away from the beach. I'm taking an art ...

We got to Cannes at about 11 pm and went straight to bed. The next day we went to find a different hostel to stay at where it was closer to the beach. Once we got there, we went grocery shopping (quite interesting in France... haha) and then we ...

... a very nice table at a restaurant for tonight. It happened to be the last day of the annual fireworks competition of Cannes tonight and we could comfortably enjoy it at the beachside restaurant. Before dinner, we walked around the boulevard of Cannes ...

Today l have been writing this journal entry whilst listening to Missy Higgins and sitting on the 4km sandy Cannes beach! Its once again beautiful here and the sun feels more like Summer sun than the beginning of Spring! Sitting here with my spring tan ...

Cannes beach front is very similar to Nice but Nice has a larger shopping  area and a  bit of an old town.  I  could not find much to do here.  Apart from the annual film festival (currently being set up) the only thing to do ...

... the bottles. Let me tell you, it took a while. For dinner the girls all found a cute place on the lower part of Cannes, closer to the beach. We got pretty dressed up to go out, which was only semi-dressed up on the Cannes scale, and ended up just going ...

... nice looking girls hoping to get discovered by a movie producer or modeling agency. Apparently wannabe actresses and models come to Cannes and other film festivals, dress really hot, then walk around trying to stir up some attention hoping to get ...

... and Boo and I went off to explore.  We walked to La Croisette and went to the Palais where they hold many of the Cannes film festival events.  Then we walked a little way along the beach until it was time for us to return to our meeting point ...

... and whish her off to Paris;  He will propose at the restaurant at the top of the Tower and take her to Cannes for their honeymoon......wow, this trip is making an impression..... Most memorable part of day-without a doubt, the flying fish and the ...

... nbsp; You can't swim in the sea as its still jellyfish season and I wasnt putting on another stinger suit.  You can do a skydive from there but we are going to do it from Cairns. Its off to a place the Ozzies call Cannes next but we call it ...

... gathering a few of the pebbles, which that was expected and I was okay with that but I didn't find any shells on the beach at Cannes!  I couldn't understand why, after all I was on a sand beach, one should be able to find shells on a sand ...

... non-stop! We followed the street until arriving to la Croisette, the main avenue that runs next to the beach, and where the main 5 star hotels of Cannes and fashion boutiques like Louis Vatton are located. Cannes is most famous for its yearly famous Film ...

... French are not our favorite people but we have to take our hats off to them in the food arena. Cannes has an unbelievable kite sailing and windsurfing beach just a short walk from our apartment. These athletes are artists of the wind. We stood on the ...

I knew before arriving in Nice that I should be able to see some of the Cannes International Film Festival; however I did not know exactly what would be going on when. Today happened to be the first day of the festival, with the first showing of The ...

... would be quick to ask the helpful lady for directions to our hotel, but when we aked we found out that it wasnt actually in Cannes!!! AHHH!!! Luckily after me thinking OH CRAP, we still have forever to go and got off the wrong stop...we found out that it ...

... film festival.  We found a great little boutique hotel called Hotel America right smack in the center of Cannes, just steps away from the beach and luxury shopping.  Thanks to TripAdvisor for the great find!  After we checked in at the ...