21 May
Monaco
We left Nice, and stopped in Monaco for about 5 hrs. The lady at the train station tourism booth told us there was no place anywhere to leave our packs while we looked around, so we got directions to the nearest fire station and left our stuff there. We took a tour of the royal palace. They gave us an audio guide player, and the tour had a lot of interesting history, but it's probably not on our list of "don't miss" attractions. We were surprised at how small the rooms are. Of course, we only got to tour about 10% of the place, since the Prince and his family live there.
Monaco/Monte Carlo is really pretty, and the harbor full of yachts was incredible. The gardens were very nice to stroll through. The Grand Prix race was last weekend, and they were still in the process of taking down grandstands and guardrails along a lot of the streets. That would have been cool to go to, but it's probably best that we missed it, crowd-wise.
We thought we'd drop a few Euros in the slots at the casino. They charge 10 Euros just to get in, I guess to keep the riff-raff out. It worked, as we declined the offer, returned to the trains, and traveled to Ventimiglia, Italy, where we spent the night. We met a woman from N.J. at the station and she told us she was staying in a B&B "up the hill." After walking about one mile and climbing what is possibly about the third highest hill in Italy without finding the place, we gave up and returned to downtown, where we only had to climb three long flights of stairs. We thought Spain had lots of narrow winding alleys, but so far, Italy has them beat by a mile.
| Daily miles: 10.83 | Expenses: 54.94€ (Monaco palace tour, Arles & Nice) 65€ (XX Settembre pension in Ventimiglia) |
 Nice train station |
Monte Carlo / Monaco
 Port Hercule |
 François Grimaldi statue |
 royal palace |
 Saint Nicholas Cathedral |
 Port De Fontvielle |
 Port De Fontvielle |
Damien Hirst sculptures
 Pregnant Woman |
 Unicorn |
 Unicorn |
 Man |
Monte Carlo / Monaco
 Solarium Beach |
 Joe above beach |
 boats in Port Hercule |
 underground parking north of beach |
 Joe on Bateau Bus |
 Port Hercule mega yachts |
 Monte Carlo Casino |
 Place du Casino fountain |
 S on Av. d'Ostende |
 2:59 am |
 Monaco Movers |
Ventimiglia, Italy
 Ventimiglia Viewpoint |
About us
In 2010, Joe & Janene, parents of Cary (Zzickle), went on a 5-month-long backpacking trip around Europe.
Maps
- Galveston to Barcelona
- Spain & Portugal
- Barcelona to Monaco
- Monaco to Carrara
- Carrara to Cecina
- Cecina to Termoli
- Termoli to Croatia
- Croatia to Vienna
- Vienna to Koln
- Koln to Copenhagen
- to Norway & back
- Copenhagen to Fussen
- Fussen to Basel
- Basel to Dijon
- Dijon to Cherbourg
- Ferry to Ireland
- Dublin to Scotland
- Stranraer to Loch Lomond
- North Scotland
- Yorkshire
- to Wales & Reading
- London to Dover to London
Calendar
| APRIL | ||||||
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| depart | cruise | Nassau | cruise | |||
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |
| cruise | Azores | cruise | Spain | |||
| MAY | ||||||
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | ||||||
| Spain | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Spain | ||||||
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Gibr. | Morocco | Spain | Portug. | |||
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| Portugal | Spain | France | Monaco | Italy | ||
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| Italy | ||||||
| 30 | 31 | |||||
| Italy | ||||||
| JUNE | ||||||
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Italy | Croatia | |||||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| Croatia | Hungary | Austria | Prague | |||
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| Prague | Germany | |||||
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| Germany | Copenhagen | Sweden | ||||
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |||
| Sweden | Norway | |||||
| JULY | ||||||
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Norway | Copenhagen | Germany | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Germany | ||||||
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| Germany | Switzerland | France | ||||
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| France | ||||||
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
| France | Ireland | |||||
| AUGUST | ||||||
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Ireland | Belfast | Scotland | ||||
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Scotland | ||||||
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| England | ||||||
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| England | ||||||
| 29 | 30 | 31 | ||||
| England | ||||||
| SEPTEMBER | ||||||
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| England | ||||||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| England | ||||||
| 12 | ||||||
| depart | ||||||
Nice train station
Port Hercule
François Grimaldi statue
royal palace
Saint Nicholas Cathedral
Port De Fontvielle
Port De Fontvielle
Damien Hirst sculpture - Pregnant Woman
Damien Hirst sculpture - Unicorn
Damien Hirst sculpture - Unicorn
Damien Hirst sculpture - Man
Solarium Beach
Joe above beach
boats in Port Hercule
underground parking north of beach
Joe on Bateau Bus
Port Hercule mega yachts
Monte Carlo Casino
Place du Casino fountain
south on Av. d'Ostende
2:59 am
Monaco Movers
Ventimiglia Viewpoint
