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Day 16 - The Monte Carlo
... 8364;5 and got €8.32 back ... WINNNING !!! Yay :D. We later enjoyed a €16 drink because we were in the Monte Carlo and why not. Jake and Todd got the James Bond martini's and meg and I got cosmopolitans. There's tasted like petrol and our was a lovely cranberry delight! Meg, jake and Todd all put €10 each on the black jack table. Both meg and jake bombed out on the first round and again on the first round after wasting another ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... up on a branch of the lemon tree so that it contained a blossom, which grew into a lemon within the bottle. When it was ripe, I cut the stem of the lemon, untied the bottle, and filled it with vodka. We still have it. During its decade-long marination the lemon has become somewhat bleached out, and the vodka has acquired a strong yellow tint. The passage of time can be marked in so many ways.
We went back up the road for lunch at La Petite ...
The Drawing
... with Google Streetview revealing the church. This was only about 2 years ago.
I was thrilled to have finally solved the mystery but it spawned another mystery. As far as we know, Percy was never in the south of France. Did he draw it from a photo or postcard? Did he draw it during the war or when he returned in 1958?
The ...
Monaco
... It was beautiful, and very decadently decorated, and one of Monaco’s main sights. We didn’t gamble, figuring we could spend our money better on ice cream! All of the pleasure, none of the risk! After this we headed out walking along the coast, and came across a part of Monaco I remembered vividly from being a kid – we headed down to the beach and saw upon dipping our feet in the water that there were big fish everywhere, all around our feet! I remembered ...
Nice and Antibes Road Trip
... trying to pluck up the courage to do so). We then walked up to the old Chateau sight and looked at the Nice harbor one way and the Nice coast the other way.
On our way back to Juan-les-Pins we stopped in at Antibes. This is the second biggest harbour in Europe and I thought I had seen big yachts/boats in St Tropez - but this was mind boggling. Some were so huge, they were 5 stories high - two we saw with helicopters on the top deck. ...
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