BEING THERE

For some, this microcosm called Cannes is as familiar as an old sock. Ruinously expensive hotels and equally ruinously expensive restaurants, the bunker, mega-promotions and big-talk on the Carlton Terrace. Cannes years are distinguished by strikes and wars, a strong or a weak dollar, and by the weather.

Despite all that, this small Mediterranean town remains everybody's favourite place to do business. What's more, Cannes isn't all Croisette. Little streets and tiny alleys are jam-packed with another life.

Until the mid-19th century the only people who lived in Cannes were fisherman. A tangled warren of houses high up in the old Suquet looked out upon vacant marshland and a clear blue sea. Then came an Englishman, Lord Henry Brougham, who founded a colony for British gents and ladies looking for a clement place to winter. The rest, as the say down on the Croisette, is history.



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