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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
This mornings mission is to find an atm to get some money out as I'm running low from my last withdrawal in Venice. After succeeding to get out money we bought croissants from a very fancy bakery. Simple things like buying a croissant can be so hard. For instance in Australia in a bakery you would ask and pay the same person but here they get you to pay the person at the cash register or you can be asked to pay first and then you are given a docket to ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... gravel court just adjacent to the café. The thud and scrape of the metal balls, which we could hear from our house, sounded just the same.
We walked past the Café down the sloping narrow road to our old house, La Golondrina. The apt name means swallows; we had lots of them. We stood in front of the metal gate we’d opened hundreds of times to walk down the stone path to the house. But now we had no more right to do so than did any of the many tourists ...
Neanderthal man alive and well in France
... a Miro sculpture. It is a chair with a large blob of blue matter on the top (See photo). The work is entitled "Femme assise et infant" Monsieur is joined by an attractive Madame who is obviously a connoisseur. Monsieur inquires "can you make any sense of that, Madame?" Madame steps back and considers for a moment - " Miró's sculptural output was a redux of an earlier surrealist strategy, the discovery of the marvellous through ...
A real rollercoster...
... to San Remo which proved to be a bit underwhelming (despite my protestatiions that it had to be nice as it was round the corner to Monaco) Bob likened it to Ramsgate. Whatever - i bought a lovely top and the pizza place was great so it's spot on in my book.
Back on the road and it was my turn to drive. I was looking forward to seeing Monaco (and learnt from Bob that Monaco and Monte Carlo are one and the same - news to me!) Sadly it was not to be and ...