We arrived in Nice last night on the French Riviera and our hotel overlooks the Bay of Angels in the Mediterranean Sea.
Beautiful!
After a brief tour of Nice, we took a city bus for 1.5E to Monaco and Granny even ventured into a casino. While she was in the bathroom I won 22E at the blackjack machine. I was surprised that anyone could walk in and also surprised that it wasn't crowded.
We did try to go into the lounge but did not meet either the dress code or the bank account minimum I am sure and so we were declined entry. Every tricky Granny wanted to argue that we were dressed appropriately earlier...
Monaco Monte Carlo hosts a Grand Prix which makes sense because I lost count of Ferraris that passed us by (while we were on the bus - funny).
There are lots of pigeons and I had no idea how much of a panic a pigeon would cause when it hopped too close. It was funny the first time Granny almost landed on my lap, now its hysterical to me!
Tomorrow we are going into Italy for the day - how fun is that?
If we were here longer I would have liked to do something on the water - seems to be lots of stand up paddling, wind surfing, sailing... I did swim today, so that's something.
Thank for tuning in.
c
Chrystie! I went to school in Nice! I had no idea you were going down south, if I had I would have recommended a bunch of my favourite haunts. Including a Canadian bar - yes, a bar in Nice owned by a Canadian, decorated in Canadiana and serving Canadian beer but filled with the French, as well as some students and Canadian Ex-pats :)
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the blog BTW. Have fun in Italy and eat lots of gelato!
Cheryl