Sep 20, 2011

After our disagreements with the GPS directions yesterday and admittedly we had the extra challenge of multiple river valleys and changing traffic conditions we tackled the maps again and headed off to explore more of the French Riviera / Cote d’Azur. The traffic this morning was reasonably quiet and we explored the little village and surrounds of St- Jean –Cap-Ferrat where there is serious money evident in both the spacious residences on land and yachts and cruisers on the water. We had a coffee looking out over the harbour and pondering how the other half lives.



Looking back over Nice as we head for St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

The water we have seen both close up and in the distance all along the coast has been crystal clear and where there is sand on beaches (very few) we could see the shadows of the boats on the ocean floor. As the depth increased it just became more deeply blue. Spectacular!

After coffee we headed for Monte Carlo in the Constitutional Monarchy of Monaco and oop a day found heaps of traffic very quickly in the maze of tunnels under the city and finally found a car park and left the bikes and came upstairs to find ourselves straight in front of the Casino would you believe!



The Monte Carlo Casino where we walked into the foyer to ogle at the spectacular building and left without spending any money so a lot richer than a lot who left throughout the day no doubt



The view from the McDonalds window (arguably the best one in the world) where we lunched, again, ahead of a lot of the punters

From Monaco we headed off again to find Eze where we sat and had a very expensive drink of juice on the hotel terrace in the ancient city overlooking all of what we had visited in the morning and varying shades of Blue Mountains disappearing in the distance in the magnificent blues and turquoises of the Mediterranean Ocean. WOW! So not what we would normally do and loved every minute of it.