Christie and Luke

The last stop on our cruise was in Cannes, France. At this point we were kind of looking for an easy going day and after speaking to some of the crew on the ship we decided to hit up the beach. Most of you have heard of the Cannes Film Festival so you can imagine what a lot of their clientele are like. Now, Christie and I are two very classy people but we didn’t want to appear snobby or to flaunt our wealth so we hit up the public beach and schmoozed with the locals. The only true portion of that last sentence was that we went to the public beach. The water was a perfect temperature and the view was awesome but I would be much happier if they could get the salt out of the ocean!

After soaking up some rays we went for a walk in search of some French wine to take home. We heard there was a market just up the hill so we started hiking to see if we could find it. The first place we stumbled upon was a convenience store so to continue the “rare find” path we were on we went in and picked up a bottle of Bordeaux to bring home. We don’t know if we will like it but hey, we got it!

It was getting close to when we needed to head back so we started back down the hill still in hopes of finding this amazing market. Well, we got stuck on top of the hill because there was an elevated road with train tracks under it surrounded by fences. We had to keep walking to get to a place to cross and we stumbled upon Christie’s house (Villa Christine).

As we were walking down the street (finally) we actually stumbled upon the market but they were all closing up. We didn’t see any wine but we did see a TON of cheese and fresh produce. If we had more time we would have stocked up and done something amazing.

On the way back to the ship we stopped in a local bakery to get a sandwich and Christie tried speaking French to the woman and she came back with great English. It is kind of funny that we were trying to speak their language (it happened in every country) and they would jump straight into English as if to tell us to stop butchering their language. It was very helpful but it didn’t really force us to learn a whole lot and we kind of want to learn too! Anyway, we got a baguette with ham, tomato, mayo and cheese (and egg as we found out later which made me happy but not so much for Christie). We took it back to the ship to eat since we still had a bottle of wine on the ship to drink. When we got back we dined on our balcony with a bottle of wine then spent the next hour on the chaise lounges soaking up and sun and reading.

We came inside to eat a quick snack and while we were in there some workers came to tie up all of our chairs. They didn’t explain anything but I did notice it was getting a little windy. Apparently there was a storm coming and they didn’t want anything blowing away. As the night progressed the weather got much worse and for the first time there was noticeable movement on the ship. I’m not talking about a couple inches, I’m talking about a foot or more which was enough to make it look like I drank too much when I was walking but for once I hadn’t. The rest of the trip had been very smooth so it was crazy to me that a ship of this size could move that much in the water. Luckily neither Christie or myself got sick and the rocking motion actually helped put me to sleep.

That’s it, cruise is over. Good-bye ship, it was a great time. Now we are back in the land of bag thieves.

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