Saturday Morning and it’s time to say goodbye to our Gite and the Slavin’s.  It has been an awesome week and we have enjoyed it very much.  It was fun being with the relies so really sad goodbyes.  Blair is off to Lyon & UK, Sheryn & Callum are off to Grenoble, And Ray is being picked up by cousin Keith and has an eight hour car ride across France to Keith & Kay’s place.  We are off to Cannes. A bit of a hiccup with the Gite as it sounds like there was a misunderstanding about the cost and them wanting 336 Euros more.  136 of that for cleaning linen which sounded a bit steep.

We tell Tomtom Cannes and we have a 300km drive.  We chose tolls this time and shell out 26.70 euros for the pleasure of driving at 130km/h which we did mange to do for a lot of it.  So much for the scare mongering, maybe it did scare all the travelers to change their day.  

Our hotel was the Cannes Garden Hotel which was not overly flash but clean and right in the centre of town, really convenient. We settled in then went for a stroll.  The weather was hot and fine, well into the thirties again.  The place just stunk of money, flash cars and even flasher boats.  You just could not believe the number and the quality.  We walked ocean boulevard out one way to all the flash boats.  The beach was just covered in deck chairs.  All the flash hotels also had a section of the beach.  These were “flash” hotels. From the other side of the road.  

Lots of bikinis some without the bi.  Very hard on the eyes.  We walked back on the other side of the road and it was just bumper to bumper flash cars, especially near the casino.

Huge number of eating places along the road but too rich for us.  We ended up back in town and ate pasta before turning in.  No trouble sleeping as we had air conditioning in our room.

Sunday and we were out of bed late.  It was 11 o’clock before we were out looking for brunch.  We went looking for a place we had seen the night before that was advertising Bacon & eggs but when we found it, it was closed. We ended up back where we had dinner the previous night and they made us ham & cheese Omlete, yummy and not bad coffee.  Haven’t had a decent coffee since I left home.

Did some more strolling, looking into some of the shops, walking to the top of a hill where there was a commanding view in all directions and a big church.  Came back to the room and made an effort to catch up on the blog before heading out for dinner.  We then walked back down the water front for an Icecream and watched life pass us by in all shapes and forms.