Day 98: Sunday, April 24. HAPPY EASTER!

Baguette for breakfast! Yes, I ate the entire thing

Happy Easter!!  Today, Caitlin and I woke up around 9:30 to go to mass.  We stopped and got some breakfast on the way, and when I say breakfast, I mean that I ate an entire baguette.  It’s crazy, I know we’re in France and everything but EVERYONE is ALWAYS eating bread.  Just walking down the street munching on a baguette.  So I decided to jump on that bandwagon because I was definitely struggling.  We got to church a little early, but still had to sit on the upper level behind a massive concrete pillar.  We couldn’t see one thing, not to mention, we obviously couldn’t understand one thing that was said.  So needless to say, I got a lot of thinking done during the sermon.  After church, I needed to embrace the fresh air, so we walked along The Croisette.  The Croisette is pretty much everything that people imagine the high life of Cannes and the French Riviera to be.  There’s the beautiful beach on one side and designer shops and luxury cars on the other side.  The infamous blue chairs line the shoreline where people sit and enjoy their rich, luxurious lives.  We grabbed some ice cream and sat down next to the beach.  We relaxed for a little, people watching and enjoying the scene.  We wanted to hike up Le Suquet, so we walked back to the hotel to swap the heels for sandals.  Cannes is actually a relatively small town.  We were able to walk everywhere the entire time with relative ease.  After we changed, we made our way to Le Suquet, the city’s Old Town.  On the way, we passed a Mercedes Benz car show taking place in front of Vieux Port.  It was really cool to watch all the super rich people gaze at the cars in front of port filled with jaw-dropping yachts

 

After taking some pictures, we made our way up to Le Suquet, a picturesque little village perched on a high hill facing the sea.  The view was awesome, and with the weather so clear, we could see for miles.  We walked around the neighborhood for a bit, taking pictures and loving life.   

Lunch in Cannes, France

At this point, we were starving.  We walked back down the mountain and attempted to find an affordable place to eat; we quickly realized that Cannes is sinfully expensive.  Much more so than Nice.  Every single restaurant that had any view of the sea was so far out of our price range.  We ended up eating at a little Italian restaurant on the strip behind The Croisette.  It was still overpriced, but slightly more doable.  Afterwards, we walked through an awesome antique market.  It was huge; there were so many people selling all sorts of neat things.  Except everything was still super expensive! I was so bummed, I thought the whole point of outdoor markets is that they’re supposed to be thrifty.  Well that wasn’t the case at all, but it was still really fun.  People were selling everything from paintings to clocks to old Louis Vuitton luggage.  We walked around for about an hour, attempting to find some bargains!!    

Antique market place

So many cool things

After buying some goodies that we couldn't really afford, we decided to sit by the beach again.  The weather was so nice, it was impossible to not want to sit outside.  

I could definitely get used to this :)

It's sad, but by this time it was almost dinner, and we were hungry again.  We felt like the entire vacation was starting to revolve around when we were going to eat next.  Pathetic, I know.  We went back to the hotel and showered and got ready.  We attempted to look through guide books and find cheap places to eat, but the honestly don't exist in Cannes.  We even surfed the web to find good deals, but even that didn't help.  We went to this site where you put in your budget and location, and and it brings up restaurants accordingly.  $$$$ = over $200, $$$ = between $150 - 200, $$ = between 50 - 100, and $ = up to $50 PER ENTREE.  When one dollar sign is up to $50, we have problems.  We decided we needed to get out of Cannes ASAP.  While it was one of the prettiest cities I have seen, it was so freaking expensive!!  We finally found this place in our of our guide books that had salmon entrees for 13E, and we decided that was doable.  We walked there and immediately both ordered the salmon, only to have the server come back five minutes after we ordered and tell us that they were out of the salmon.  Heart broken, we both ordered overpriced pasta.  After dinner we went back to the hotel and watched a movie.  We were catching in early train out of Cannes in the morning!