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11/7/2011

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Before Tom's, the French had espadrilles. I can't go to the South without getting some.
CANNES

Maybe you thought I’d forgotten about Cannes.  Maybe you though I wasn’t going to write about it, after all.  But it’s impossible for me to forget about Cannes.  Ever.  How can someone forget about a place that helped define who they are?  I once heard one of my favorite singers, John Mayer, talk about picking up the guitar for the first time.  He said it was the moment when his life went from black and white to Technicolor.  I loved - and still love - this idea.  Cannes for me was a moment just like that – a Technicolor moment.  I studied abroad there in 2007.  I left one way and came back another.  You can practically see it in the pictures, how much I grew in those few months.  But the point is that everything that happened after Cannes was something different than before it.  And that’s why Cannes will always be special for me.

Cannes is a special place.  And not because of the stars that flock to it for a few weeks in May.  That’s why Cannes is famous and that’s why people go there.  But it’s more special because of other reasons.  My favorite time to go there is in the shoulder season, when the air is still warm and the businesses are still going, but the craziness of the whole of France amassing on it is gone.  I like the quiet balminess of Cannes, if that even makes sense.  When you arrive in Cannes you wonder what to do there, but after a day or so, you relax back into it and realize you don’t need to do anything there to feel right.  Cannes is all about calming down and chilling out, so that’s precisely what we did.

Here are some of the things The Scottish One and I did and saw on our trip to the South:
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Tom
11/7/2011 05:58:07 am

Are you making fun of me?

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Wendy
11/7/2011 07:14:51 am

Love the Pics!

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Teresa
11/7/2011 08:02:30 am

Profound post and yet all I can say right now is "I need the chandelier in the ice cream parlor."
LOVE your photos!

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Carla
11/7/2011 01:11:48 pm

Loved the pictures. Love the bathroom and the ice cream! lol

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Katie link
11/7/2011 06:36:11 pm

Tom - Not unless you're the guy who founded this company: http://www.toms.com/

Wendy - Thank you!

Mom - The chandeliers there were fun, but too red for the kitchen!

Carla - Thank you! The ice cream was delicious and the bathroom was a lot of fun - we just walked into the Carlton like we owned the place and no one said anything (then again, they didn't see us taking picture of the bathroom either!)

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Karen V. link
11/8/2011 04:23:56 am

"Technicolor" - love that description!

I adore the picture of the bookstore! It looks like a very old library and something straight out of a movie! I want to live there too but I am just crazy about books!

And who can resist the beauty of a marble bathroom!

Thanks for sharing such great photos! :)

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