Lunch in Cannes: a buckwheat galette of pear and blue cheese.

A pineapple martini — with a backup — at a back-street cocktail bar.

Winter-quiet sand west of the old port, looking across the Golfe de la Napoule to the Esterel hills.

The CANNES sign and the clock tower of Notre-Dame d’Esperance on Le Suquet, the old town hill.

Morning produce at the Marche Forville, the belly of old Cannes.