This tiny island is so close to Cannes and the Cote d’Azur and yet it’s another world away…
Just in time to catch the 11.00am sailing from the Old Port of Cannes, I take a short but picturesque boat ride across the Bay of Cannes to the Islands of Lerins. The larger of the two islands is Ste. Margeurite where the ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ was said to be imprisoned in the fort that still stands. Its smaller neighbour is St. Honorat, and the boat docks in the narrow channel between the islands where a fleet of small craft idle in the crystal blue shallows. As I set foot on the cushion of pine needles onshore, I am greeted by a chorus of cicadas chirping in the canopy overhead.
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