Cannes...

On Sunday morning we flew out of sunny Luton into sunny Nice. We were off to the Cannes Film Festival again!!

We were picked up at Nice airport in a Mercedes and driven back to our hotel - the Majestic Barriere. This was a different hotel to last year, closer to the red carpet! We arrived around 11:00 and headed onto the private beach area for lunch. It was a completely free event with as much food and drink as you wanted.

We met up with SJ's customer's who'd arrived on an earlier flight and watched the world go by. We headed back to the hotel to get ready as we'd got an appointment with a Harcourt photographer before our premiere. Harcourt is a style of photography pretty much exclusive to France. Click on the link and you'll see what I mean...

After our session we headed for a couple of drinks before making our way over to the Palais des Festivals for our premiere...and what a premiere...we had tickets to the world premiere of Indiand Jones and The Crystal Skull! The crowds were amazing and the amount of photographers!!!! We made our way inside and watched as the celebs came up the red carpet. There were loads there - Goldie Hawn, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Lewis Hamilton, George Lucas, Salma Hayek, Cate Blanchett, etc, etc. They were seated just below us in the theatre. The film itself is OK...nothing special though. If it wasn't the fact it was an IJ movie, it would probably flop.

The following day we had a wander round Cannes, picked up some pics, had some lunch and then made our way back to the airport for our flight home...brilliant time had by all!!