Journey In God's Amazing Grace: If it's Friday, this must be France!

We arrived at Cannes, France, on Friday morning. This was the only "tender" port that we would visit -- the ship anchored out away from shore and we had to take tenders in to land. Evidently the harbor is not deep enough for cruise ships to come in to port.

Our view as we had breakfast at The Great Outdoors...

... the area near Cannes.

Boarding the tender

Inside the tender

Looking forward in the tender -- they were using lifeboats of the Gem for tendering.

Tender at the pier in Cannes

We did not have specific plans on what we wanted to do in Cannes - figured we would pick up a map at the port area and hope that there may be someone there who would share some touring ideas. On the tender ride, we talked with another couple and they shared that they planned to do the hop-on hop-off bus - we thought that sounded like a good idea and looked for the busses... but I guess that Cannes does not have hop-on hop-off busses. We did find a map, and it had a tourist walking route marked, so we decided to do that.

We started in old town... which was straight up a hill...

Another couple was also walking up - a bit in front of us - they were taking a picture at this building, so we stopped to offer to take a picture of them, and they returned the favor, offering to take a picture of us. Nothing particularly special about the building that we know of!

We got to a view point and could see over Cannes...

... and the harbor area.

There was a sign at the top so we did a selfie in front of it (we were actually on the "wrong" side of the sign, but used the function of a selfie that makes it like a mirror, so it turned the sign to make it read correctly!).

We also found a part of the city wall that we could walk up on and got some pictures.

Carl took a picture of me at the bottom of the wall...

... while I got a picture of him on top.

There was a church nearby so we went inside the Church of Our Lady of Hope.

Interior of the church

Statue of Our Lady of Hope on the altar

Stained glass windows of the Annunciation

Clock tower at the church

From there, we walked down the hill through curving narrow streets. The cafes were setting up their outside tables.

We decided to visit the market...

Big open area -- all sort of things for sale!

Large display of spices...

... beautiful colors...

Strawberry season

Zucchini flowers for sale (https://www.oliveandmango.com/stuffed-zucchini-blossoms-kolokythanthoi-yemistoi/) -- to my knowledge, I've never eaten a zucchini blossom!

Cheeses

Fish

Eggs

All kinds of dried mushrooms (including some that indicated origin in USA)

Back walking in the streets - we were looking for a cafe...

... Carl wanted to have a coffee on the street in France, so we stopped and he got a cappuccino...

Another patron offered to take our picture

We continued walking in the shopping area, and then turned toward the harbor...

We could see the Gem anchored out

We think this is the location of the Cannes Film Festival.

Hotels along the harbor front

As we were walking back, our route took us along an area where large yachts were tied up...

... we were walking right along behind them - no restrictions on our access to this area.

This one had a dinghy with "Williams" on the cover - we figured that means that we could own it! (Maybe just the dinghy?)

This one appeared to have the lines of a 1940s (?) car to me!

Many of them had "garages" for the storage of the dinghy (or dinghies).

This boat was from Fort Lauderdale.

Some more yachts -- access to the area behind these was restricted.

The clock tower near the church where we had visited a couple of hours earlier.

A funny story -- when we went into the church, Carl had removed his cap. When sitting in a pew, he had put it down beside himself on the pew.

After we left the church, as we were walking in the streets, he realized he did not have his cap. We were trying to remember if he had even brought one with us, and we looked at some of the pictures and realized it had been left at the church.

So... before heading back to the ship, we went back up the hill, and into the church, but the cap was not on the pew. There was a closed office at the back of the church that had a window in the door and a sliding window, through which we could see the lost cap on a desk.

We waited for a few minutes to see if the custodian would return... but when he did not, Carl tried sliding the sliding window, and was able to open it to retrieve his cap.

So... if you hear about Interpol searching for cap-thieves for stealing from a church in Cannes, you'll know why!

We headed back to the tender pier ...