{"id":1860,"date":"2013-05-18T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:50:26","slug":"the-soggy-french-riviera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2013\/05\/18\/the-soggy-french-riviera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soggy French Riviera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day of rain and we\u2019re starting to play the \u2018Glad Game\u2019 just a little too much.\u00a0 We\u2019re glad we\u2019re not in a tent. We\u2019re glad we\u2019re not on a motorbike.\u00a0 We\u2019re glad we\u2019re cosy and dry inside Eileen. We\u2019re glad it\u2019s not too cold. We\u2019re glad we have our own loo.\u00a0 We\u2019re glad we left that last campsite before the river flooded in; well it looked like it was getting close. When we left Fr\u00e9jus, Eileen was sitting in 2\u201d of water and to prepare everything outside Rodney donned the wet weather gear, jacket and trousers.\u00a0 He hasn\u2019t worn the full set since we left Scotland.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I started to check the map to see if I could find any areas of desert nearby.\u00a0 We tried to think of something we could do on a wet day, crazy golf was out and cycling was definitely off the agenda.\u00a0 We spent a while at the supermarket stocking up for yet another long weekend and it seemed a popular spot, but we didn\u2019t want to spend a whole day there.\u00a0 We could always embrace the wet and take up scuba diving, but neither of us really fancies it.<\/p>\n

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One wet soggy shopping centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The drive along the coastline from Sainte Rapha\u00ebl to Cannes is quite spectacular and there would have been lots of photo stops, if it hadn\u2019t been pelting down.\u00a0 Rodney pulled over and braved the downpour in a few spots along the way, but it would have been so much nicer to see it under clear skies.<\/p>\n

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\"Cap
Cap Semaphore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Agay\"
Agay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The first thing we spotted as we approached Cannes, were a number of surfers in wetsuits out in the wild waves of the Golfe de la Napoule, for some reason we hadn\u2019t expected surfers in the Mediterranean.\u00a0 I read the guide book and was unimpressed to read that \u201cCannes is pampered with a luxurious climate\u201d, \u201ca ravishing climate\u201d and \u201cthe absence of a tan is considered a sin\u201d. Oh dear, not today Josephine\u2026\u00a0 As we drove along the main beach boulevard into Cannes, we were surprised to see no traffic, lots of empty parking areas and, apart from the few surfers, there were very few folk about.\u00a0 There\u2019s a film festival on; we expected to see the flags out, cafes full of people, shiny yachts and glamorous frocks.\u00a0 All we could see were empty restaurants, soggy boats and a few brave people strolling under wet umbrellas on flooded pavements.\u00a0 Must be lunch time, we thought.<\/p>\n

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\"Crowded
Crowded beach at Cannes ……not! \u00a0\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Oh dear again.\u00a0 As we turned the corner by the Quai M. Laubeuf we came to a standstill and we\u2019re still not sure why we weren\u2019t moving.\u00a0 We heard sirens, we spotted a fire engine, a couple of ambulances and a few policemen, so we turned off the engine and wondered if perhaps a film star had fallen off her high heels and slipped on a zebra crossing in the rain. Then, as we turned on to the Promenade de la Panti\u00e9ro we found crowds, very wet crowds and a rather soggy wet red carpet going up in to a building.\u00a0 It took us over an hour to travel 1 km and then we sat outside the Palais de Festivals for ages, waiting for numerous official cars to go in and out, while the police stopped the local buses, cars and us.\u00a0 Rather than get frustrated by the hold-up, we got to see Cannes from our comfy campervan.\u00a0\u00a0 We didn\u2019t get wet and those two hours of moving through Cannes, would only have been spent in a soggy campsite on the outskirts of Antibes, which is where we ended up.<\/p>\n

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\"Traffic
Traffic chaos in Cannes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Cannes
Cannes Film Festival centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We\u2019ve unfortunately been given the spot furthest from the shower block, laundry, etc., which are all at the top of\u00a0 a steep road near to reception.\u00a0 We both got soaked setting up camp and checking the facilities, but we have our fingers crossed, no, we have everything crossed, that the rain will stop\u2026..tomorrow?<\/p>\n

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\"The
The Great Gatsby crew must be staying at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day of rain and we\u2019re starting to play the \u2018Glad Game\u2019 just a little too much.\u00a0 We\u2019re glad we\u2019re not in a tent. We\u2019re glad we\u2019re not on a motorbike.\u00a0 We\u2019re glad we\u2019re cosy and dry inside Eileen. We\u2019re glad it\u2019s not too cold. We\u2019re glad we have our own loo.\u00a0 We\u2019re glad we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8404,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/8404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}