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Monaco: The best of it all in one little country
Monaco was exciting! The landscape was unlike anything I've ever seen. The roads were narrow and winding and fun to drive, the food was simple and complex, the city was quaint and extravagant, full of nature and technology... Monaco is a contradiction.
The harbor is equally beautiful in the evening and during the day... the small sailboats line up along side luxury yachts and ...
Day 16 - The Monte Carlo
... to sand beaches. Getting hungry we found a super market and following in the baguette trend we brought some cheese and game and avocado and sat on the curb eating delicious baguettes after searching for ages to find a laundromat and not a dry cleaning we gave up and went back to the hotel. We asked the lady who ran the hotel if she knew of any places and she said she could do it for cheaper. We were delighted but later we found that the price she ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... located in a parking garage. Well, it’s not exactly in the parking garage itself, but just off “Level 0,” which is three circular stories below the “+3” entrance level. We had arranged a rendezvous with old friends whom we had met there. We saw Anne with her infant son Emmanuel, who inexplicably was no longer a baby, but now ten years old! And our good friend Paula was there too.
After church we took the inevitable walk down ...
The Med The Sun
... on the way back up the hill to treat myself to a apple tart the nice lady gave me two for the price of one.
After supper It was time to catch up on this blog so I ventured down to the reception to use the wi-fi and that's were I stayed until about 10.30, when I got back to the bus everyone had gone to bed and it was in darkness. I managed to knock a couple of toilet rolls down the stairs but I don't think I disturbed too ...
Côte D’Azur
... have lunch. Our lunch spot was great – right across from the marina where yachts were moored. Jeff and I both had mussels and frites (much better quality and taste than the mussels we had in Toulouse) and we were introduced to the Côte de Provence Rosé– a light, pale pink Rosé that was pleasant to taste and perfect to cool ourselves down after being out in the heat. Jeff and I enjoyed our lunch sampling the mussels, doing some people watching and ...