We woke this morning to a beatiful view of the coast of Monaco. We had breakfast at the buffet which was incredible. Every imaginable breakfast item was aviailable to us. We arrived at the meeting location to leave for our excursion.
Even though the country of Monaco is literally no bigger than 1 square mile, there was still a lot to see. We got off the boat at the dock, hopped on a bus with our tour guide, and headed up what they call “the Rock”, which is the district of Monte Carlo where the Royal Palace is as well as the Cathedral and many local shops. Once we arrived, we were guided through a walking tour of this area and given a detailed history of the area by our tour guide.
We then took a tour of the Palace which was was rich with Louis XIV history. It was a bit boring, but worth seeing anyway. Before now, Janine and I knew practically nothing about the nation state of Monaco and how it came to be.
After a tour of the “Rock” including the cathedral and Palace, and a little bit of shopping, we left our tour and took the train on our own to the Monte Carlo Casino since it wasn’t included in our tour. It was only 1 Euro which wasn’t bad, and it dropped us off right in front of the casino.
The whole area around the Casino was amazing. Beautiful, posh and exotic are just a few words to describe the area. We decided not to go into the casino because they were charging 10 Euro just to get in and we hadn’t planned any gambling time so we just checked everything out from the outside as you can see in the pictures.
We did a little shopping and headed back to the boat after that. We had dinner, then went to the featured “broadway” stye show of the evening which was amazing. We didn’t stay up late because we had to be up pretty early for Rome.
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Wow, Monaco looks heavenly, I really really want to go there! Oh, and that castle- just so cool!