Monaco is a very strange place, it has some amazing architecture and landscapes, mainly due to it's location, where the vertical distance almost matches the horizontal when travelling north south(or towards or away from the marina). This landscape necessitates external elevators, and some amazing bridges and tunnels. But in general the whole place feels a bit bizzare, where you're either disgustingly rich (about 1% of the people here) or you're trying to rub shoulders with the disgustingly rich in the hope that it will somehow rub off.
The boats (or yacths or ships, don't ask me what to call them!!) are absolutely ridiculous, it's probably worth a visit just to see the extravagance that exists, but there isn't much else to bring you here in my opinion.
Carol and I drove the Formula one track(only because Carol said I had to, and there's a photo just to prove it), I'm sure I now hold the lap record for a Renault Megane 1.5 Diesel, as I was really flying around there, I only took out 2 small children and 1 granny, a small price to pay for the lap record in my opinion ;-)
We did visit the royal palace and went on the tour, it was very good and really gave you a good understanding of how the principality of Monaco came to exist, unfortunately photo's weren't allowed, as there was some amazing artefacts in there as well as some really nice architecture and Decore, so you'll have to come over and look for yourself!
We did have a nice meal, and Monaco feels really safe and is quite clean, 1 day was plenty though, so after rising late on the second day and the afore mentioned laps(yes there was actually 2) of the F1 track we headed off to Florence.
Monaco pics
No comments:
Post a Comment