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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
... All of us were now getting very behind on our washing so we set off to try and find a laundromat and explore the coastal city. We took some tourist photos sticking our heads in the jack sparrow cut out and Todd in the Charlie's angels one too. We saw the building where Cannes film festival is held. We went to the beach to but part of the walkway was closed for something. It's strange that we only travelled like 30 mins on the train and we had ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... and we couldn’t give Manfred authoritative directions. Maybe the roads had changed since we’d lived there, we thought hopefully. But by the combined authority of our intermittently functioning memory banks and Manfred’s GPS we arrived in St Paul de Vence. Everything looked pretty much as it had. We drove to the Espace Sainte Claire, a multi-story car park, for church. The "International Church in the French Riviera" was perhaps the world’s ...
The Roman Empire
... much easier to defend since your enemies had to trudge uphill loaded down with their weapons.
The religious edifice that survives today was built by the Ile de Lerins monks in the 11th century. There is a school attached and it was delightful hearing school children playing in the school yard just down from the church. There is a museum here that displays archeological findings dating back to the first ...
Irish Pub in France?
... of fun and I met some new people. We ended up going to a 2nd Irish pub down the road for a bit which was fun and then decided to walk back, which was the least fun of all. At least we got to see the million dollar yachts on our way back, making me instantly jealous. A walk back on the beach instead of through the town was a good end to the night.
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