NICE & CANNES - FRENCH RIVIERA

Our apartment is close to the railway station at Juan Les Pins so we thought we would take advantage of being able to catch the train to nearby towns.  Nice was our first destination - Nice is very nice :-)  a large town with lots of unusual modern art in the parks & streets.

Not sure I like this piece

I prefer the old artwork & the old part of town - beautiful narrow streets with lots of restaurants

The water was the most incredible blue - maybe it's because there's no sand - only stones

If you don't want to lie on the stones, you can pay for a chair & umbrella at a cost of 15 Euros for half a day

We walked to Parc De La Colline Du Chateau (damn, more steps) This park had great views of Nice & also views of some pretty impressive yachts.

We thoroughly enjoyed Nice - tomorrow a visit to Cannes.

The Cannes Film Festival only finished the weekend we arrived, we hoped we would spot a movie star or two, but none were to be found. The closest we came to stars were the great big pictures hanging on buildings or across the streets

We walked through the old town to reach the Musee De La Castre - a great vantage point to view the town & Mediterranean sea.

We strolled through the marina - very few yachts - just extremely large cruisers which seemed to be never ending. 

A walk past the Carlton Hotel which was in the Hitchcock movie "To Catch a Thief"

 

After a day of walking around the town we decided (for some stupid reason) we would walk back from Cannes to Juan Les Pins - it was about 13 kms as we incorporated walking out to the point - we walked non stop -  if we stopped for a break we were unsure we would be able to get back up. We were absolutely exhausted. Tomorrow Cliff has decided we will only walk to Antibes :-(