Cannes Private View

If you are looking foe souvenirs then you should widely open the purse because price of most souvenirs is comparatively high. Nevertheless if you like this city and want to keep impressions hot after a couple of time buy something. It is worth to do it. They will put food on your table while you drink. Bread, little munchies, sparkling water. If you do not refuse it, they will charge you for it.

“The Bunker” on the front at Cannes is the centre for many international conferences, music concerts, and of course the annual film festival in May each year. Film Festival fortnight aside - all the big French and International singers will feature Cannes on their tour itinerary. It is well worth checking on the net or at French stores like Virgin and FNAC in Nice if there is a forthcoming concert during your stay for which you can buy tickets.

Concerts are usually announced six months in advance so there may well be a great opportunity for you to catch a favourite star, in a much more intimate environment than the likes of London Docklands or Wembley Arena (where you pay same price to see your favourite band “Four Dots on the Horizon”). Be warned: live concerts in France are a “big ticket” item - expect 60 $/Euro a seat plus. Worse still, expect your fellow French audience to set up a group “clap along” whenever a beat is laid down. Oh and France is big on “classic songs”.

The audience know every word by heart, and after the initial applause of recognition dies down, expect the first ten rows to sing along raucously. One concert any minute I was expecting 500 cigarette lighters to start their slow windmill arm motion. Within the Palais the seat rows rise vertiginously to ensure everyone has a good view of the stage or screen. Very fit young Cannois assistants glide up and down the aisle steps to show you to your seat. It is customary to tip for this service. This is no cheapskate venue. - show some style.Tip generously.This is about who you are, not how much can you save. If you do brave the process, my tip is to bring your own small binoculars - “lorgnettes” the kind you used to have mounted on the seat in front of you at the opera. Makes a big difference.