Cannes; Sunday, 14 December, 2014

I had another breakfast almost completely to myself in the deserted hotel café before packing and heading out into town.

First stop of the morning was down onto the seafront to pick up the number 8 bus – rather grandly titled the Palm Imperial. It’s one of the normal town bus services, but because it runs along the seafront it’s operated, mostly, by open-top double-deckers so it was a good way to take in the sights on a bargain price sightseeing tour.

After heading out to the end of the route at Palm Bay and taking in the sights there over towards the islands I hopped on the next bus back into town and went in hunt of lunch.

A very pleasant, if slightly lengthy, lunch later and I staggered out of the restaurant and wandered my way up the hill back to the castle to have a look around the museum and the views from the tower.

As with the previous day at the Fort for some reason that wasn’t being explained the museum and observation tower were free for the day.

I had a long look around the museum and then climbed the 109 steps to the top of the tower to take in the views over the city.

Having exhausted the museum and the view point I wandered back into town and had a bit of a walk along the sea front before it was time to head back to the hotel, collect my stuff and make my way back to Nice airport and my flight home, hoping that all the problems that had been caused by the air traffic control failure on the Friday afternoon had been resolved.