La Victoire
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Monaco: The best of it all in one little country
... floating in a beautiful, serene place lost to time.
Our dinner at VistaMar in the Hermitage Hotel (One of Monte Carlo/Monaco's top 10 restaurants) was complete with foie gras, sea bass, lamb, chocolate fondant and Grand Marnier Souffle... a perfect ending to an amazing meal. We finished the night in a small club cut into the side of a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean.
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Day 16 - The Monte Carlo
... Cannes the kebab place was closed :( craving one we looked up on the Internet for kebab places in Cannes. We enjoyed our kebabs and marvelled at the curios sauce that had a taste that wasn't quite recognisable. We headed back down to the beach waking all the way along the shore the pathway was lit up by rainbow lights that danced in patterns on the floor! We sat on the wall facing the water making shadows with the light on our backs. Then back to the hotel and ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... which was within smelling distance of La Golondrina. We rarely ate there—it was hardly like going out—but it seemed appropriate for this visit. From our table on the terrasse of the restaurant we could see the roof of our old house.
Finally it was time to walk, as we’d done so many times, under the arches of the thick city wall into the bustling core of St Paul de Vence. The same tourists milled up and down the stone paths, holding dripping ...
Neanderthal man alive and well in France
... visitor and it is where D.H. Lawrence, suffering from TB, ended his days. We stop for a drink, and Monsieur is at it again. "How much?" "We've only had a coffee and small beer, 10 euros, that's extortionate- haven't you got a trading standards office!!!" Madame drags Monsieur away from the village and suggests that we visit Foundation Maeght. The foundation was founded by rich art dealers. It's grounds are full of sculptures by Miro, Hepworth and ...
A real rollercoster...
... incline wasn't too steep. That's km/h, so about 50 mph (in case you thought I was fibbing about the lack of power). We even saw another old 500 on the autoroute (and cheekily overtook it) before stopping at a service station to check all was well. Which it was.
Whilst I checked the engine over I suddenly became aware of lots of eyes watching me. It was a bit like being in a field where a herd of cows appear from nowhere and you are in the middle of it. In ...
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