Cannes, Day 8

[xwacky]

Despite we were out rather late the night before, I got up early the next morning.  I was hoping we could make a trip to Monaco on that day because I was told the streets there would be closed during the later days of the week due to the Grand Prix that was about to take place.

But we never made it to Monaco.  Kids happily played in and out of the pool.  After Geoff got up, he and my friend as well as the au pair went to the super store Géant in the nearby town Mandelieu to shop for groceries.  That took them well over 2 hours--Geoff came back saying the store was humongous, it was a feat to even find out where things were located.  Anyway, by the time they came back from the store, it was too late to make the trip to Monaco because our other friends' family was to arrive sometime later on that day.

I didn't really want to spend two days in a row lounging around the house.  Plus, I was eager to sample more local eateries--it's one of the pleasures I enjoy when I visit places.  So Geoff and I decided to take Andy and one of our friends' boys on a short trip to Cannes.  I had wanted to visit the Le Suquet (old town) part of Cannes.  However when we got there, my attention was caught by the people eating platters of seafoods in a restaurant around a street corner near La Croisette.  That was it--I was literally drooling.  I had to stop and satisfy my taste buds!  Despite I had woken up that morning with a blotch of rash on my right arm, I must eat the seafood!  So we stopped at the restaurant (Astoux et Brun) and ordered a small seafood platter.  It was DELICIOUS!  We also ordered mussels for the boys.  They loved it!  Ever since that day we took Andy to Leon de Bruxelles in Paris, he liked to eat mussels.

After we finished a satisfying meal, it was already late in the afternoon.  We figured our friends' family should arrive pretty soon so we headed back to the villa to wait for them.

Our friends arrived not too long after we got back from Cannes.  They had flown from Amsterdam to Milan and driven from Milan to the villa on that day!  After they settled in the little cottage next to the main house, we had BBQ for dinner (yes, I ate again despite I just had a late-afternoon meal).  From that point on, we just hung around the villa and partied.  There were plenty of champagne, wine, beer, rum, tequila, vodka...  I had a tad too much Champagne so I went to bed with Andy at around 22:00.  This proved to be a "wise" decision--Geoff, who stayed up partying ended up being tossed into the pool at 3:00 in the morning!  ::hehe::  I never quite got the whole story of what happened...

Comments

[suffolkgirl.livejournal.com]

That meal you had in Cannes looks lovely - I'm a huge seafood fan myself. The party sounds like great fun.

So did you ever make it to Monaco before the Grand Prix?

[xwacky.livejournal.com]

I'm still drooling every time I thought of those seafoods! I actually made hubby to take me back for a bigger platter couple of days later!

Yeah, we did make it to Monaco the next day. It turned out rather "comical"--I just updated my journal on that. ;)