French Riviera: Cannes and Antibes - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

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[dragonstar]

I lived in Antibes in 1986. It's a great place to be and very beautiful :)

[bokeflo]

I hope to travel through the French Riviera one day and I'll definitely put Antibes, and the beach there, on my list of destinations.

[gustavoadolfo]

Nice nice nice. I love your videos of France.

[gustavoadolfo]

The people of cannes is very kind and very friendly. Nice destination.

[Loganblubaugh]

man rick wish i cud go were u do hahaha i really like Europe thanks to all your travel shows on hdnet

[hhutcheo]

id like to see more about Poland too. :)

[LeszekImielski]

I'm waiting for Calanques, Camarque, Arles and Cassis :-)
Best regards and greetings from Poland.

PS. When movies about Poland ? (Wroclaw, Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw)

[TheMatthewfusion]

Trust me, Cannes is really dull! Mougins, Antibes, Eze and other more quaint places (except Monaco, definitely go there!) are much nicer to visit

[MrSilverfish]

Great place. Not sure about the Picaso paintings though. Was he drunk when he made them?

[titteryenot]

Well now. Cannes. I first visited it back in ‘94 on a wee cycle from Nice to Toulon, and as a gauche, culture-free zone I whizzed through along the Croisette without so much a sidelong glance at the place, and was spat out the town rolling on down to Fréjus. Should I have stopped? Well, one visit since that youthful escapade, and I would say, er, yes and no. In other words, probably worth seeing but not worth going to see. The main drag, the aforementioned Croisette, is nothing more than a second-rate Promenade des Anglais, 20 miles further east along the coast. The buildings are gaudier and as a result also less interesting. On the plus side, the beach fronting them *is* sand, (imported, apparently) and so no risk of haemorrhoids, a la Nice's pebbly plage. The town behind the garish, grinning mouth (a few gold teeth included) of La Croisette, is nothing but a poseur’s paradise, as well-heeled young wannabe starlets, well-upholstered, beer-gutted hairy blokes of a certain age (i.e. north of 60) and well-plastic surgeried matrons with faces stiffer than a fireman’s pole, and lips more stung-looking than a careless bee-keeper, prance up and down in the sad knowledge that time and (even the slack Mediterranean) tide wait for no one. So, that’s it really. Oh, but wait, I forgot; on the edge of town there is hope. On closer inspection, Le Suquet, Cannes’ salty old bit, is as charming a jumble of ancient houses as any on this whole coast. The views from atop the hill the village climbs are also tip-top.

[CCAvatar]

Rick, isn't Cannes pronounced "can" as in can of corn? When I asked a French lady, that's what she told me. Actually this is a clip from Rick Steves' PBS show, so it must have been a while ago...

[davemattia]

CANNES -- is said the same as CAN in TIN CAN or CAN OF BEANS -- it's not KHAN. I am a French speaking person and when I heard people say KHAN it makes me nuts. I mean, if you are doing a video about a city, please pronounce it properly. If you know to say tin CAN with a neutral American accent, you have accidentally given the correct FRENCH pronunciation for Cannes. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. If You say KHAN or KHANS to a French person, it's like hearing nails on a chalkboard. This really bugged me because the guy who made the video seems to have BEEN THERE -- he must have heard the natives say the name of the town. Ok -- that's enough.

[RobinsM]

Seems like Cannes is for the people who couldn't afford too go to Monaco.