Minotel Les Strelitzias Juan-les-Pins

After brekkie it was onto Menton which is a lovely little town just before the Italian border. Menton is a much more down to earth place than its neighbours and more our scene. We found a park right on the beach and went for a wander and took in sum much needed sun. Next stop Italia!!<br>

Up early as it was a spectacular sunrise - full of pinks and organges. We wanted to hit McWifi before we entered Italy but we did not find one until later in the day in Menton. Before that we drove the coast road through Nice and Monte Carlo, both concrete ...

... wine bottle and then we thought they were off on the trail, but no they got in the car and drove on! <br> At the end of the gorge we joined the road towards Cannes, which was route Napoleon, orginially created by him as a pass through the mountains...very windy. Our destination for the evening was Grasse where we found a good park overlooking the city lights and our first view of the Med.

... Sailboats were docked at the marina (knez, it made me think of you). Diane ordered mussles and Jon and I had our first mussels ever. They were delicious. Thank you Diane for helping me discover my love for sea food. St-Tropez was further than we thought, but thank god we ...

We were so excited to have another person travelling with us, that our time spent with Diane was mostly fighting over her for her attention and trying to get her to side with one of us. She was definitely a good friend to both of us ( and didnt favor me, which I thought she should have ...

Bonjour! Today we arrive at Monaco! A district of royalty and affluence! The home of Prince's and Princesses! An area visited by many Prince's and Princesses as well as celebrities, millionaires and billionaires! It's a place to see and be seen! It's a location where wealth is a necessity and sophistication is a requirement! <br><br>Also today, Elsie celebrates a birthday! Her 60th! That little girl born on ...

Right now we are sailing to Turkey, Aug 11 about 6;30pm and I thought i'd go back a few days and write about what we did on my 40th birthday.  We got up extra early as I had a tee time at the monte carlo golf club at 8am.  We took a taxi to the golf course which is located high about monte carlo on a mountain, above a town called la turbie.  Our taxi driver was a great, even stopped along the way and took a picture of us with monte carlo in the back ...

... eat in restaurants on their way to meetings with colleagues and such. But they very soon realised that sitting down at a Spanish restaurant at two for a cup of coffee and making a meeting across the street at five were two mutually exclusive things. It became impossible to gauge just how long a meal would take. But, at the same time, they could not return to their old ways - by this time the businessmen's wives (this is still a very patriarchal ...

... the guy decided to tell us that the room would require a 40 Euro deposit *each* and that he'd need to keep our passports. I asked why that might be and he went into a long, rambling speech, like a man in the grip of a fever dream. He suggested Eb and I might not actually know each other, and that we might have met at the train station, and that the keys to his rooms were very valuable - very valuable indeed. I'm not sure what scenario was playing out in his imagination, but for my ...

... yummyt meal. I got a burger and fries and it was huge. Some others ordered Seafood that also was pretty big. So good value for money. After lunch we decided to climb up the little stairs that led to a lookout over Nice. It was definitely a bit of a climb and made me realise that I might not be so fit. The view from the top though was fasntatic and worth the climb. Some others went on further to an old chateau at the ...