Tuesday, October 15, 2013, At Sea between Cannes, France and Barcelona, Spain

Our day in Cannes started with high clouds and haze.  We arrived at 7 AM.  I heard the clunking that seems to come from next door and it went on for awhile getting me up earlier than I would have liked. I'm not sure what the noise is, I can't imagine what they are doing in there.  Maybe the noise is made by some ship activity as opposed to the neighbors.

We ordered our breakfast as usual and enjoyed our coffee as the day brightened.

Our tour started at 12:45 in the Princess Theater.  This is the first port of call that we were taken ashore by tenders instead of docking.

Our tour was along the Cornish, a winding road along the shore, sometimes quite high above the sea.  The day actually got grayer instead of clearing up.  We spent about an hour in a town called St. Rafael.  We took some pictures along the road and in town I got a good shot of an old church.  I did look for a cache near the church, but didn't have any luck. 

After walking around for awhile we went to the pickup point.  While we waited for the bus, Gerri did a little shopping.  The drive back to the port at Cannes was over the same road we came on.  Our prospective was different as we were now on the side of the bus facing away from the ocean.  It got colder and shortly after we left St. Rafael it started raining pretty hard.  We drove through several small business areas along the road.  Most of the houses of various sizes were literally clinging to the hillside.  We could tell it was the end of the season in the south of France, many of the businesses were  closed and most of the homes and apartments had some type of shutters closing them off.  The cliffs along the road and the hills beyond that could be seen were a red colored limestone.  The area resembled Red Rock Canyon at home or many places in southern Utah.

It was quite cold when we got back to the port at about 5 PM.  The last tender to the ship was scheduled at 5:15 with sailing soon after that.  The process of boarding the tenders involved long lines and a lot of waiting.  The same things were involved in re boarding the ship.

It seemed like a long cold day so we stopped at the grill on deck 5 and had a bowl of Tortilla soup.  That hit the spot and warmed us up.  After the soup we split a grilled tuna fish sandwich and small quiche before going to our room.

We didn't weigh anchor until 7 PM.  No nice sunset tonight.  But all in all a very good day, both of us are feeling better.  I think I'm pretty much rid of my cold.  Gerri seems to better and she has always been able to function better than me with a cold.

We went to dinner at our regular time.  Everyone was there so we had a full table.  Since I have had a hard time falling asleep last night I abstained from the coffee and tea this evening.

Tomorrow we will be back in Barcelona,  we booked a tour to Montserrat that will take most of the day.  Barcelona is about 290 miles away.