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Some sunny daze
Apr. 1st, 2011 05:04 pmDateline: Friday lunchtime:
Yesterday I got the train to Cannes. Twice in the past I have sworn never again to get the bus to Cannes, and twice I’ve said to myself “hell, it can’t be that bad”. Indeed, the last time on the way back from Cannes on the 200 bus I found myself sat next to a particularly obnoxious adolescent who proceeded to give me a chest cold that only antibiotics stopped from turning into pneumonia. Yes, the bus to Cannes is that bad. The €12.20 return trip by train is infinitely less stressful.
Curiously, the “semi-fast” TER train to Cannes was one of its old stock, while the double-decker “stopping at all stations” train on the way back was the newer kind.
This coastal journey oddly divorces many residences from the beach. Here, for example, is a photo taken as I went past Boit. A fantastic, two-mile long beach, almost completely deserted, and only accessible from the houses on the other side of the tracks via (very occasional) pedestrian subways.
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( Many more pictures and much more text )
Yesterday I got the train to Cannes. Twice in the past I have sworn never again to get the bus to Cannes, and twice I’ve said to myself “hell, it can’t be that bad”. Indeed, the last time on the way back from Cannes on the 200 bus I found myself sat next to a particularly obnoxious adolescent who proceeded to give me a chest cold that only antibiotics stopped from turning into pneumonia. Yes, the bus to Cannes is that bad. The €12.20 return trip by train is infinitely less stressful.
Curiously, the “semi-fast” TER train to Cannes was one of its old stock, while the double-decker “stopping at all stations” train on the way back was the newer kind.
This coastal journey oddly divorces many residences from the beach. Here, for example, is a photo taken as I went past Boit. A fantastic, two-mile long beach, almost completely deserted, and only accessible from the houses on the other side of the tracks via (very occasional) pedestrian subways.
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( Many more pictures and much more text )
