Another country?

Monaco may be the smallest, but it still is considered a country! This brings our total to 6, if you are playing along from home.

When you are only 20 minutes from one of the most desirable places in the world, you have to go right?   So we did!

A short train ride and voila, we arrived in Monaco (another country even).  We had missed the Monaco grand prix by only a few days, but the signs that it had been there still existed.  There were barriers along the winding streets, fences around hotels along the track and ligroin tourists.

If the water could get more blue than in Nice, it seemed to.  This place smelled of money, from the giant yachts, the Rolls Royces and Farraris cruising the streets.  The beaches weren't actually sand either, but they smalls pebbles (better than river rock, I guess)

We strolled through the casino tunnels and eventually down to the beach to get some lunch.  The weather was clear and pretty warm (80ish, with lots of humidity).  We took to people watching and a little shopping (one shop had a bikini that went for 2500 euro)!

I didn't really elaborate on the room we had in Nice, but it was quite large.  It was very well located (5 walk to the beach and shops.  It also was only a 15 walk to the train station.  It was definetly older and a little more rundown than our swanky digs in Belgium, but it had a kitchen and 4 beds.  The shower (if you could call it that), had a shower head on a hose, but no place to hang it!  Oh well...it was kind of like camping for us....

Random thoughts:

1) One of the Top 5 places I've always wanted to see.
2) If you had all the money, this would be a nice place to camp out (no taxes)
3) Getting tired of pizza
4) American pizza is better (except for that one in Koln)
5) Tired of paying to pee!
6) Nancy met a new woMAN friend.

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