Night out in Cannes

Tonight’s program was to meet up for dinner with Margaret, an old friend from my tough year (not tough because of the studies, if that’s what you thought ;-) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She had come over to the Cote d'Azur for a long weekend of golf with Bart, a friend of hers. After mulling over various options, we decided that the best place to meet up would be Cannes (since that’s where they were staying). The evening didn’t start off promisingly, with a fair bit of raining coming down (not very good weather for golf). Once in Cannes, things only got worse – it really started pissing it down, as they say in old Blightey. In fact, I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen anything like it so far on the Cote d’Azur (basically like your average day in the UK)!

We had a very nice dinner in a place called Bistro Gourmand, a cosy little place next to the main food market in Cannes (which is where they buy their ingredients, apparently). Our waitress was actually half-Swedish and spoke fluent Swedish – so Margaret got to confuse her with her undecipherable (at least to me) Norwegian and me with my dodgy Swedish-Finnish accent.

After the dinner we had a couple of drinks in one of the bars in the old town. Can’t say it was a busy night – we had the bar to ourselves apart from a couple of drunken locals – maybe something to do with the weather?

Anyway, it was great to meet up with Megs again and catch up on the good old times again (getting to be that age - it's all about nostalgia these days...). And fortunately for them, things got much better weather-wise for the rest of the weekend!