What I learnt...
- Walking on pebbles on Nice Beach is really bad for your feet and hurts like hell, but not having sand stuck in all of your crevices and hair, means you emerge from a relaxing day on the beach feeling clean and refreshed
- Buying a lounge chair for 14 euro for the day is completely worth it... I'm into hot stone massages but couldn't imagine laying on the pebbles all day sun baking and taking in Nice's crystal clear water!
- Drinking and dancing on tables in bars in Nice is mandatory and surprisingly fun! However always best to be close to a wall as the more you drink the more you find you need a wall to dance up against! Partied hard at Wayne's Bar with fellow travelers!
- That I must read Trouble and Triumph by T.I when I get home...this snippet from the GQ Magazine the lovely American man lent me to read on the beach has me intrigued! "All my life I'd bust a nut before I'd ever get to fucking! One look at the pussy and I'd pop." ummmm wtf!
- Even the McDonalds in Monte Carlo looks like 5 star establishments
- The Le Grand Casino de Monte Carlo is actually surprisingly really small inside for the public playing areas! Only few main tables and a handful of poker machines...I guess it's all about those private rooms! Give me this place over The Star any day!
- Just sitting and watching the goings on of the valet service outside of the Le Grand Casino de Monte Carlo was a one-time experience on its own where Ferrari, Austin, Rolls, Bentley and Lamborghini's were in constant parade and as a patron showed up with a more exclusive car then what is already parked outside the lesser exclusive car got bumped to the underground parking! So on any given day it is the worlds best cars on display! I fell in love with the matt black on black BMW X6! Dreaming I know!
- When I'm rich (not neccissarily famous) I want to own a chalet on the cliff tops between Nice and Monte Carlo...a summer house! Parfait! Although saying this I'm not sure I would like to drive those cliff tops too often! Note to self! Must google how any cars go off the edge of the cliffs! RIP Princess Grace!
- Finnochio Gelato Bar is the best I've ever seen and we weren't even in Italy! I made it my mission to try all 90 flavours including beer, cactus, mandarin, black olive , tomato and basil and chocolate Ferrero rocher. Ok, not really, but I did have Ferrero rocher, bounty, pistachio and avocado!
- Note to self! Set up data on international phone before leaving home! Wifi was in the corridor of the hotel only...so you meet lots of people just sitting around cross legged up against the walls! The strength was horrible, only enough to do a basic check in on Facebook! Hate! Little did I know this was the start of the bad wifi throughout Europe!
