Exploring Le Cannet

After a rather lazy weekend, we figured it was time to activate ourself on Sunday. Our initial plan had been to go hiking, but the weather forecast looked distinctly off-putting, so we decided for a bit of culture instead.

So we decided to head to Le Cannet, where they've recently opened a museum dedicated to Bonnard. Aurelien and Julie, who live in Le Cannet, were happy to join us when we told us about our plans, since they'd not been to the museum.

We started our visit by checking out the Tour des Danys. This old tower, dating back to the 16^th century, used to guard the entrance to Le Cannet on the road from Cannes (Le Cannet is basically just next to Cannes). From there, we headed off to the old village. Quite a picturesque little spot, I have to say (I guess that shouldn't surprise me, almost all towns here do have a picturesque old part). After walking around the cute cobble-stone streets for a bit, we were joined by Julie and Aurelien.

After some deliberation, we decided to go for lunch before visiting the museum (which meant we had to scrap our plan of having a picnic lunch on the beach at Cannes, darn!). We chose one of the two nice-looking restaurants on the main square in the old village, and ate rather well, I have to say. I had some nice prawn skewers, followed by a nice café gourmand (basically a coffee with a selection of small desserts – usually a safe choice!).

The museum itself was pretty interesting. The theme of the current exhibition was to explore Mr. Bonnards relationships with other painters from the same period through their art. So actually, there were also some quite interesting works of art from for example Matisse and Monet, in addition to paintings from Bonnard, of course. The collection was pretty small (takes less than an hour to see everything), but I still reckon this museum is well worth a visit.

Our very pleasent afternoon finished with some drinks in Aurelien and Julie's lovely garden!