Monaco & Eze

Saturday we had a planned excursion to Monaco and Eze. I was partially bummed at first because Alix, Adam, and Cao were going to Italy instead and that would have been a ton of fun. However, as it turns out Monaco is fking awesome. To start the place had absolutely beautiful scenery. Beyond that, its clear that it is mostly for 'the other half.' Driving around the streets the majority of the cars were Mercedes', Porsche's, Maserati's, etc. Plus I saw a few Ferrari's parked plus two Bently's and an Aston Martin. Defintely the kind of place I wouldn't mind living once I make several million. I've heard that there's an income minimum to live there.












We started out our day near the palace and walked down into the city. Down in the city we sat and had coffee. The weather was perfect and it was just calm and relaxing. Then we headed back up another hill to the Monte-Carlo casino. The place opulent and had awesome architecture. We went in but didn't gamble. I thought about playing a slot machine, but you had to put in 5€ to play, so I didn't bother wasting it. Around the casino was were the majority of the nice cars were parked. I definitely wouldn't mind owning a Ferrari.

















After we walked back up the huge hill to the palace we had a scheduled trip into la Musée océanographique de Monaco. The museum part was okay had some interesting stuff to look at, mostly whale skeletons and other old whaling and boating memorabilia. The real treat of the place was the aquarium. It was really sweet and a lot of fun to check out all the fish. I haven't been to an aquarium since the days of cub scouts when we stayed over at the Camden Aquarium.


Yellow Submarine!




On the way back to Cannes, we briefly stopped in an old village called Eze. We went to a perfume factory tour. That wasn't exactly the highlight of the trip haha. While people were still milling around the store, I went with a few people to check out the old medival village up the hill. It was this awesome old castle-like village built on a hill. At the top there were some awesome views. It made the stop off at Eze well worth it.