Yanky Londoner: Hello Cannes and Nice

After getting back from Arizona, I headed out for a three week holiday starting in the South of France. My friend Rebecca joined me for the first leg of the trip. Our first stop Cannes!

We started off the holiday on a high note eating our first meal of many great ones. Being so close to Italy, most of the restaurants served both Italian and French food.

We spent our few days there walking around the city and doing a lot of window shopping.

The buildings were also lovely with all the pretty iron work on the windows and balconies.

We also walked along the boardwalk to take in the views of the ocean. It was interesting because most of the beach was divided by fencing with each hotel/restaurant owning a portion of sand. Not very pretty if you ask me.

The weather was great, not too hot or too cold.

We had just arrived a few days after the Cannes Film Festival and some of the displays were still up. Here are the stairs all the famous people walk up during the Festival.

The other thing that we noticed about Cannes....all the money! There were nice cars everywhere.

Ferrari anyone? Not enough cash, well don't you worry. You don't have to buy one. This one was renting for 2,000 Euros a day. No big deal.

And because the cars were so extravagant, you would often find tons people standing around them. Many people were taking photos of this one.

But the money didn't stop there. Yacht anyone?????

The marina was stocked full of them. It was unbelievable.

And these things were not small. I particularly liked this one with the two wave runners next to the lounge chair, with sunblock displayed nicely next to rolled towels. And if you were wondering.... this is only the bottom deck of five! The 200 foot yacht has its own website (if you were wondering) and rents for $350,000 a week or you can just buy it for $59.5 million. Crazy town.

While I was on the dock, this yacht was backing in. There were about a dozen people watching from the shore to see million dollar yachts hit each other.

We also decided to visit Nice while we were there as it was only a 45 minute train ride away. Here is the beach in Nice.

I was surprised there was no sand! Just big round rocks. And it made a really loud noise as the water crashed along them.

The water was absolutely beautiful. One of the locals told us that the water looked turquoise in color due to the rocks. The rocks are being smashed by the waves and the residue from the rocks gives it the milky color. Have no idea if it is true.

We also walked around the old town which was lovely and had tons of great shops.

You could buy different spices.

Or sea salts for your bath.

Soap was also very popular. I loved all the different colors.

And also bags of lavender could be purchased everywhere.

We also walked through a market and saw these strange little cactus. They looked like someone had dyed all the flowers different colors!

The most surprising thing of the day was watching some movers unload boxes into a three story window. They would load everything onto a platform that would then move up the ladder. So that's how they do it! Genius.