Monaco

OK, so as I’ve just found out Monaco forms part of the French Riviera but I intended to keep each country separate on here so here goes...
With silly accommodation costs in Monaco and with Nice only 22km we stayed put for accommodation and made this country a day trip. It was more or less as we expected with the place made up by 33% tourists, 33% local French workers, 33% business (mostly from the boat show) and the remaining by 1% wedged up residents walking their dogs.
The number one tourist activity in Monaco appears to be to hang around outside the Hotel Paris and the Casino amongst the parked Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Ferraris whilst waiting for someone rich and famous to appear. Who of course invariably don’t, as they’re too busy walking their dogs! Apart from that non spectacle, best is to simply walk around the place that’s supposedly smaller than Heathrow airport in size. One route that I’ve made around Monaco is from the comfort of my bedroom as a youngster racing around the famous street circuit on my Sega Megadrive and of course watching the yearly Formula One race on TV. To do it on foot and later onboard the old Motor Guzzi and past ‘The Bus Stop,’ ‘Mirabeau’ and through the tunnel amongst the other bits that I instantly recognised was actually quite a nice way to say goodbye to the coast for a while before heading North.