Hotel Beauregard Menton

ok, it was more "collecting a new country" than being really interested in Monaco. Strange, when you go there from Nice airport by bus it costs you 18 € one way, when you go from Nice bus terminal it costs 1 € one way. Monaco is a very clean city. I have never seen so many big and expensive cars. I saw the casino and the castle. Nice, but not spectacular.

I know I always write the same...great weather, such a nice city, good food....but I have to say that Nice was a (very) big surprise for me, I can say that it is my favourite city in Europe (ok, number 2 after Lisbon). You have the mountains, the Cote d´Azur (when you see the water you know why the name is Cote d´Azur), the market with fresh vegetables, fruits, honey, oil, soap, you have great restaurants ...

It is Sunday and very wet and miserable here in Antibes. Quite a change from the glorious day we had yesterday. Ideal for computer work in fact... (Except that then things didn't pan out as planned and it is now Monday)

It wasn't my intention to have an entry before my departure but the response to my initial circular has been so overwhelming that I feel it merited an ...

... choice of routes and directions given. A classic is where we are on a main road with a slight bend and there is a goat track leading off the road. She tells us to turn right to avoid the goat track and stay on the highway... Sound advice, I would never have thought...Kim laughs as I often engage in conversation with Mary why she instructed me to go one way but blatantly ignored informing me about an important turn which I only noticed from looking at her screen. Maison d ...

On this morning we left Switzerland and travelled south into Italy en-route to the French Riviera. The scenery was pretty spectacular, with snow-white capped, jagged mountains that seemed to swallow the highway. Surreal!

When we arrived at our hotel we had about 30 mins to get ready for our trip into Monaco! On our drive to Monaco we crossed the bridge that Grace Kelly was killed on in a car accident. The roads are ...

... other spots in Europe, here we didn't need to wear our polar fleeces...) we decided to extend our stay to include the weekend and spoilt ourselves with a stay in a 4 star hotel right near the beach! Its our first splash out since we started and would you believe it was almost in budget!!! Guess the off-season thing really applies here. Its a bit sad that we haven't come here in summer as its a bit chilly still, particularly when the sea breeze comes up. We've been very jealous of the 30 ...

... point. La sueur me pisse de partout, je fais plusieurs petites pauses pour récupérer, et j'arrive enfin au camping St-Michel ; l'Auberge est tout en haut de ce terrain en pente. Complètement détrempé (il faut dire qu'il fait aussi assez chaud, environ 25 degrés), je me butte à une grille fermée à clé ; l'Auberge n'ouvre qu'à 17 heures, dans vingt minutes. J'ai le temps de sécher, de mettre aussi de l'ordre dans mes préparatifs du dernier droit de ...

... We set about exploring the village and came across a wedding celebration that was being held at one of the restaurants. Christie has decided not to take any fashion tips from the bride though. Her dress was an 80's flash back: tight sequined top half with the bottom half being lots of ruffles - the skirt was really short at the front (think mini skirt) and longer at the back. She was standing out of the front of the restaurant having a ...

Thats right, we are on the Riviera. We took a long train ride to this French town and climbed up a bunch of steps to our FREE campsite, they actually did not charge us. SCORE We had some good dinner the first night and walked along the beach a little. For the next day we went to Monaco and saw some of the sights there including an aquarium, the ...

... first time today. One of Jossey's friends stuck him in her boobies. Lucky guy! I am so good to him. After they all went back to school in Italy, I was a little sad. I really like all of them, they were so nice and I felt like we really clicked. I have pictures of them too. I will post as soon as I can. After that, I went and met my friend Amber and her uncle Jim in Monaco, the city that the famous Monte Carlo casino is in. You know the one in all the James Bond movies ...