Club Med Opio Provence
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Day 16 - The Monte Carlo
... to sand beaches. Getting hungry we found a super market and following in the baguette trend we brought some cheese and game and avocado and sat on the curb eating delicious baguettes after searching for ages to find a laundromat and not a dry cleaning we gave up and went back to the hotel. We asked the lady who ran the hotel if she knew of any places and she said she could do it for cheaper. We were delighted but later we found that the price she ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... that serves as a barrier to keep non-residents from driving into the village. It’s about the width of a telephone pole, two feet tall, and sinks down into a hole in the road to allow passage when the nearby card reader is activated. (As residents, we were proud to have one of the coveted cards). When we lived there, a prime source of entertainment for Emily and me was to sit on the terrasse of the Café de la Place, drinking coffee or having frites and beer, and ...
Visit to Moulin a Huile d'Opio
What a beautiful day! so much sunshine (we do not miss the rain in BC, not even a little). We all get up early when we did not really have to, Chef L read the wrong line on the itinerary. Oh well, breakfast was so good. Today we're on our way to Opio for the olive oil factory visit before heading to Aix-En-Provence. The 7th generation of the same family ...
Monaco - where my other car is a Ferrari!!
... is a well keep strip of flowers and greenery dispersed by a number of ornate fountains. These gardens slope down toward the casino where we will start our practice lap.
The Monaco Grand Prix F1 circuit is just over 2 miles and the lap record is still held by Michael Schumaker at 1:14.439. If I even had a time machine, I doubt if I could break that record especially when we’re walking around.
OK, they’re lined up…the red ligts are ...
Beautiful Nice!
... All good in principle.
We made it Bastille just fine. Except that it was of course the morning peak, so getting on the train was tough... especially when the doors are all automatic: after a little while of being open, a buzzer sounds, and then you've got about 2 and a half seconds to get clear of the doors before they close. No human intervention... just get out of the way.
At Bastille, we headed up and down a billion stairs in order to get to line 1 (as is normal ...