I should begin by saying that we’ve gone two days with no one falling. Fingers crossed.
We are also all more healthy. Though I’m not “well,” it’s not the same thing anymore, but who knows?
I guess I will start with breakfast, which has been a challenge (too, if you’ve been reading), but today KG found a place in downtown Nice. It was good. We found it easily enough, despite the traffic, and even got in a parking place (have I told about this? It’s been a thing with the bigger car and the car’s sensors going off on both sides at once).
I will stick with a drink pic and a plate pic…
And then off, down the coast road, to a place built by a Rothschild (if you hadn’t heard, they had some coin). To get ideas for if we wanted to move here.
In ‘15, Michael and I went here and remember how amazing it was. Everyone was amazed. About 1905, someone found this piece of land for Mrs. Rothschild and she build this villa and gardens there. I will settle for a couple pics.
EH wasn’t happy with her design choices — a roccoco design with some odd touches — but every rich person gets to be eccentric, right? As you can see, you can see a lot of sea from three quarters of the rooms and the others face the garden (which has a huge fountain that was running).
The gardens have 9 different areas, including roses, exotics, and French. Bamboo. Cacti. There were lots of bird of paradises.
By the time we were done (after a late start), it was 2 o’clock. Time to head further east (we went west yesterday) towards Italy.
Michael probably remembers the drive, windy, up and down, with the sea coming into view from higher or lower — I’ll give you one scenic stop’s shot.
Then into Monaco. FYI you don’t even know you are entiring the place, which Wikipedia says is half the size of Central Park. After doing through tunnels and traffic, we ended up parking in the famed Casino’s parking garage.
It was a long walk to the bottom of this hill
Where we ended up in yet another, yes! Christmas market!!!! A couple photos will have to stand in.
And then back to the casino. Here’s your shot of where we were going before finding an elevator to take us up near the building.
IF you missed why we were there, it was for the light show, which was supposed to be a big deal. K got lengthy video, but it really wasn’t that great…
And then we decided to go into the Casino.
You have to pay to get into the Casino to lose your money. :). But they give you a voucher for down payment on a drink :)
There are no pictures inside the actually casino. I got one of their lobby Christmas tree, which was impressive.
Inside, Ian and I got some chips and played roulette. I walked away 20 ahead minus tip. Felt okay.
K wondered why we didn’t play blackjack instead “because it takes some skill.” KG told her that it wasn’t that way, really, that roulette it was 50-50 ish. Then we watched a guy in front of us as we had drinks lose 5 straight hands in blackjack (though he made some shaky decisions). But it goes to show how quickly it can go.
OTOH, the guy standing next to us at the roulette table put several 5E chips on the number and hit on the first spin!!! 36 to 1. It was quite a stack of 5s back at him. He then took part of that stack and covered a bunch of numbers and hit again!!!
We had drinks, KG and I talked about Casino Royale and they were talking about the decorating (old school, heavy)…and we took off for “home.”
Quick hit: there were a lot of expensive cars rolling around. This is K’s favorite (not the Lambo, or the Ferraris 😀 )
We ended up back in Mougins eating at the same place for the fourth time (we are “those” people”) and KG had the sea bass, which was worth the photo. I will add EH’s steak tartare.
And now I am caught up. It is literally “tomorrow” already…
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