Stroll down past the giant yachts to one of the many beaches. Choose your restaurant en route! Buy your wine from high class cellars or take it away in a plastic flagon - the choice is yours - but all on your doorstep. Delicatessens are busy preparing food to take away....collect your croissants, palmiers and pain au beurre et sucre from 'Paul's' for breakfast...and your coffee ground from the shop next door.

A few steps take you up to the narrow, intimate restaurant street in Le Suquet - rue St. Antoine - where white-clothed, candlelit tables line the street and delicious food appears.

Take the train along the coast to Antibes, Nice, Villefranche, Monaco, Menton and into Italy or go by boat to St. Tropez.

Play golf at the numerous courses around Cannes.

Go designer shopping on the Croisette and in the rue d'Antibes or visit the market in the rue Gambetta. Metres of shops of all kinds wait to tempt you in the rue Meynardier. Visit the open air Saturday and Sunday craft, antique and art market near the sea front and watch the local men play bowls at the same time.

To find out what is happening in Cannes visit the Palais de Festivals website.

The Arcades Cinema screens English-speaking films.

Go on a boat excursion - long or short - perhaps visit the Lerin Islands off the coast where the Man in the Iron Mask was imprisoned - you can even go to Corsica by boat. Learn to dive from a specialist boat in the old harbour, or go sea fishing.

Bus and trains for inland excursions and to places along the coast all on your doorstep. Flat walking.

Follow one of the guided walks you will find at the Tourist Office or go on one of their organised excursions. If walking doesn't appeal take Le Petit Train which offers two different tours of Cannes departing from in front of the Majestic Hotel. Or just stroll about people watching, eating, drinking, relaxing and catching the street entertainers.

For an elegant evening, visit the piano bar at the Martinez Hotel and do have a look at the Carlton and the Majestic Hotels. Casinos and nightclubs abound - try Palm Beach or Jimmy's.

And then just pop back to your nest at Studio 3 ready for another day.