As you may recall from my blog entry a couple of days ago, when we came to Cannes, it was to watch some fireworks (the "Festival d'Art Pyrotechnique de Cannes", kind of like the unofficial fireworks world championships, are on all August). Well, we got the wrong date - the fireworks were in fact today. So we were damned if we were going to miss them again, so we decided to try again today!
I was working today, so went kind of directly to Cannes. I say kind of, since I had to pick up Nick's camera, which he had left at the restaurant in Mougins last night (fortunately, Mougins is only a few kilometers from Cannes). So I ended up spending two hours getting to Cannes (getting into Cannes by car is a nightmare any day of the year, but in particular when the fireworks are on...) - and I didn't even park in the town centre!
Anyway, I managed to meet up with the rest of the gang, who came by train from Nice, and grab a bite to eat before the show. And what a spectacular show it was, with the pyrotechnics nicely coreographed to some music (I liked the tunes they picked - especially "Nothing else matters" by Metallica). I haven't seen fireworks as impressive as that for a long time... Brilliant!
After the show we headed off to a bar just off the Croisette - we figured we probably better wait for the traffic to calm down a bit. We decided to all have cocktails (due to my chauffeuring duty I had a non-alcoholic one... )
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