Staying: Camping Villaggio Dei Fiori – San Remo, Italy
Distance Travelled: 0 Miles
Song of the day: Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Green Day
If you say the name Cannes, only 1 thing comes to mind, the Film Festival, and with it more celebs than you can poke with an Oscar. Despite if being famous for only 1 thing, it doesn’t stop thousands of wannabe actors, directors and tourists from visiting its palm lined beaches and boulevards (that includes us. Category to be determined). While the tourists are promenading by the beach, discretely eyeing each other up to see if you are famous behind your sunglasses (and in Cam’s case the ever increasing beard), the real celebs are hanging out n plush hotel rooms, sunning themselves n the balconies, or are miles down the road in St Tropez.
Cannes is on the French Riviera, and like all other Riviera cities, it is characterised by pay beaches, topless sunbathers and high rise apartment blocks without gardens. Its one distinguishing feature is the massive waterfront cinema which plays host to the film festival, and displays a collection of famous hand prints in the concrete concourse.
Cam and I had a lazy stroll along the waterfront, ate our packed lunches whilst the other tourists checked to see if we were famous people incognito. The city is geared for the rich and famous, so the Prada and Gucci shopping was slightly out of our price range. This being the case, we actually spent more time travelling to and from Cannes than in the city itself.
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