La Colombe d'Or
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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
... It can be quite disorienting to when your used to paying the person that serve you and ten they ask you in another language to pay elsewhere! It was a very good croissant though! It had a subtle salty taste which was nice :). After strolling through the small streets for a whole we went back to the hotel to book another night and pay for some wifi. We made good use of the wifi too, you tuning comedians and then quickly looking up trains for the ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... As always, the venerable Colombe d’Or restaurant, which guarded the entrance to the village, was surrounded, like a swarm of black flies, by Mercedes, BMWs and Jaguars. The Colombe is stuffed with original art by the likes of Picasso and Matisse—in the 1920’s and 30’s these unknown and impoverished artists stayed at the hotel and the prescient owner accepted their painting as payment in lieu of cash.
Then we walked past the ...
Day 14 - To Nice
... the evening and the next morning. The hotel is about three blocks from Mediterranean Sea.
Our first order of business - the laundromat. Laundromats are a challenge. Each one operates slightly differently. This one is no exception. Fortunately, there was a French woman there who helped us get our washer going. She also, as it turns out, was writing a book on, get this, sensual ...
We wish we would have planned this trip...
... and stuff with.
Panic kind of kicked in today, seens as we kind of realised we're meant to move on tomorrow, but have no where to go! The plan was to head down through Italy to the South-East to a place called Barri, then get the ferry over to Croatia. But, we kind of realised the ferry is pretty expensive..so decided to shut our eyes and pick a place on the map...so here's the plan...
We're going to try and stay in Nice for another night, then ...
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