A couple of observations.......on the motorways there are these humongous rest areas with over the freeway three story rest stops, complete with restaurants, showers, bars, and convienence stores. These places use the IKEA model, where you walk in, and follow the arrows. To get out, you've got to go through the gamut of products they have and then pass the cashier, who looks at you like your the cheapest person in the world cause all you wanted to do is use the bathroom. When you exit the motorways, they have this maze of offramps that look more like a Nascar track than a motorway exit. there are the high fences that are tapered in at the top to make sure that you can't possibly crash and go over to impede the traffic below...............
Went to Antibes yesterday for a day trip. Great city, with a fabulous market. We took the bus for one euro---took about 50 minutes, came back on the train---took about 15 minutes. Had a great lunch----see Donna's facebook for pics of the meal. My crab lollipop was amazing.......Went to the Picasso museum after lunch, which wasn't great. lot's of photos, quite a bit of pottery, but there are many better exhibits that we've seen in other places. Home for dinner of mortadella and cheese sandwiches,
today we went to Monaco. So, you have your brand new Porsche Boxster and feel like a million bucks as you drive into Monte Carlo. then you realize that nobody is even looking, cause there are a few brand new Porsche turbos, A few Rolls Royces, quite a number of Bentleys and Ferraris, and somebody has just driven in front of the casino in a Porsche 917. Looking down in the harbor, you feel like you have nothing. The boats are all bigger than your house, and mostly empty. They're from everywhere in the world, London, Kingston, Saudi Arabia, and many other places. The Lady Moura is 344 feet long and empty as a cornfield in december. The crew is probably there but you can't see them. The security cameas are seeing you though. That's the biggest in the harbor, but there are many others that aren't far behind. Two hundred feet, one hundred fifty feet, hundred footers look small by comparison.
Went to the aquarium, which was the best either of us has seen. If you come to this area it is well worth the time and money to go there. Could have spent an entire day there but time constraints prevented that. Walked some of ther route of the Monaco Grand Prix, the course is tighter and hillier than you can imagine. Two hundred mph on these narrow tiny streets doesn't seem possible. The street between the Casino and the Hotel Paris isn't more that fifteen feet wide. Donna played the slots for a while and managed to break even, exactly.
Had dinner at le bienveune again tonight----prix fix for 16 euros. Donna had fish on a basil risotta, I had chicken topped with mozzerella and basil pesto------------with appetizers and desert. Fabulous. Tonight I'm watching the Seahawks game thanks to my buddy Niall in Seattle. it doesn't start till ten at night here, and ends around one, but i do enjoy it. Tomorrow a lazy day in Nice, I hope, but Donna has some plans in store, so we'll see! Dinner tomorrow at a place just up the street that we made reservations for while we were here in October. Hard to get a reservation, hope it's as good as we've heard!
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