Up to the Palace We Go!

    Today, we checked out of Monte Carlo. *sigh* Twas a nice hotel. However, the receptionist said we could keep out backpacks in the office if we wanted to spend more time in Monte Carlo. Fabulous! Nice, France was only a 25 min train ride away and many trains go to Nice. So why not spend just one more day in this gorgous place.

       We still had not seen the Palace so we decided to head on over. On the way, we pasted port after port, filled with yacht, after yacht, after yacht. Each better, bigger, nicer then the next. We get to the Palace....which is up a mountain of stairs. I hate stairs. We moaned and groaned and finally got to the top. The Palace was exactly as I remeber it from high school. Beautiful, but quant. We were able to catch the changing of the guards, also a fun time. Just small little movements, but they are all in sync with each other. Christies theory is that they do that because then no one would be able to impersonate a guard, because then they would screw up the squence and everyone would know he was an intruder. I like that theory.

     We walked up and down the streets, and got a kebab. (The kebab story will be posted in a later blog). Afterwards, we walked along the boardwalk to the beach. Spent more hours soaking up the sun before we finally had to say goodbye to Monte Carlo.