Avignon to Cannes

Our train to Cannes from Barcelona was booked out, so we got a slower train all the way to Avignon and camped there for a night.

Avignon is a beautiful little town. The camp ground is on an island in the river, and really close to a lot of the sites. The church bell sounds exactly like the one in Daft Punk's Discovery album... in the song "Aerodynamic" (I think).

And the traffic lights make this totally strange little song and dance sound to tell you when it's time to cross the intersection, and a plain old boring recorded voice to tell you when not to cross.

The next day we managed to get first class tickets on the TGV to Cannes (the playground of the rich and famous). Very Nice!

The lonely planet advises that unless you arrive in your own private helicopter you probably can't afford to stay in this town. So, we're camping in a small town up the mountain, which is only about 20 mins bus ride to the main part of Cannes. The camp site is really below average (utter cr*p) and more expensive than the flash one in Avignon. The toothless old woman who runs the camp site has less charisma than she has teeth. And the camp site is a long walk along a windy road with no footpaths to the bus stop, which wouldn't be much of a problem, except for the French motorists' love of speeding around blind corners.

So we're doing a lot of soaking up sun on a tiny patch of beach between the 10000ft long speed boats and cruisers, and between larger lobster-like english families and smoking italians and old topless women who have nearly got their skin to match their dark leather hand bags, and mahogany furniture, and the thousands of hotel owned umbrella deck chair combinations reserved for the ones who are willing to pay the 20+ Euros to sit on them. (Actually we don't know the price, because we wouldn't pay for it anyway - I like a towel on the sand!)

And the water is quite nice, except for the excessive amount of cigarette butts and trash that's washed into the Mediterranean. You definitely feel like you need a shower after a swim.

We forgot the camera cable, but we'll be sure to add some photos to here and facebook soon.

Take care all,
Matt & Shailee