Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

Nice and Cannes, France & Monaco and Montecarlo.

Another last minute trip, we left for the French Riviera Thursday, April 18th. Traveling about 6 hours, we arrive in Nice, France at our hotel in the center of the city.
Not a clue what to expect that weekend, we slept a few hours and woke up the next morning for a day trip to the second smallest country in the world; Monaco.  It took us about 2 hours to see the entire place.

Every place I have gone has been equally, if not more beautiful than the next. Monaco had some of the most amazing views and scenery I have seen.
We took the train into Monaco and walked to the Ferrari factory and saw some of the workers working on some of the cars.
We continued and walked through the little town and park areas, seeing unreal yachts, buildings, and view points of south of France.

We walked up to a high point where there was a church, park and some view point areas with cafes.  After taking some pictures, we stopped at a cafe and then made our way down the mountain.

That weekend, the tennis Rolex Masters was going on in Montecarlo, Monaco.  Montecarlo was awesome.  Literally, the shittiest car we saw was probably a Smart car. The Taxis were 2012 black Mercedes.
We went into the Montecarlo Casino to check it out, and some of the boys thought about gambling.
Austin and a few others go up to the roulette table, thinking about playing and soon find out a buy in is 100 or more.  They were fast backing away from the table.

We were in our glory just standing outside, watching all the cars drive passed; Bentleys, Alfa Romeos, Maseratis and more...  Trying to scope out the people driving them :)

After hanging out around the casino, we took the train back to the hotel. Lauren, Gianna and I walked to get sushi about 15 minutes away.  Not even realizing we weren't at all familiar with the French language, attempting to order our food was entertaining and took about 20 minutes.
In the end, the sushi was awesome, and we walked back to the hotel to get ready for the night.  They were hosting a champagne party in the party room before we went out.  We all met downstairs and then went to a bar in the center where a live 80s rock band was playing.
The live music was incredible.  They played a huge variety of 80s songs and it was packed, everyone loving the band.

Saturday, we took the train to Cannes.  The town, located along the water and beach, was gorgeous.  Nothing much to do expect for shop, eat or hang by the beach, we all got a group lunch and then us girls got crepes and coffee and hung out at a cafe.  I think I ate the best dessert ever; a crepe with Nutella and toasted almond slices. Unreal.

We were bummed that the weather was chilly, because it would have been awesome to lay out by the beaches, but taking the day trip there was still so fun.

Not hungry at all for dinner, I did some shopping while Lauren and Gianna napped.  We shared a big room with Austin, Leo and our other friend Scott, but they were out getting food and walking around.
Another champagne party was being hosted that night, we just hung around and decided not to go out.
We all fell asleep right away and woke up Sunday to spend the day in Nice.


We had pretty much the whole day to walk around and do whatever. It being Sunday, a lot of stores were closed.  We went into the places that were open, got some coffee and took the tram more into the downtown area for lunch.
We ate at Wayne's Bar.  A more Americanized place, go figure, and it
was soooo good.  Grilled chicken sandwich with bacon and homemade coleslaw.  Haven't had that kind of food this entire time I've been in Europe.  We enjoyed it.

An awesome way to end the weekend, on our way back to Florence, we stopped in a small town in France called, Eze.  Known for the big Fragonard Perfume Factory, we got a guided tour of how the perfume, soaps, lotions, etc., are made and got to sample a bunch of the products.  It was so cool to see and smell everything after knowing how and what it was made with.

The French Rivera is somewhere I definitely did not think of even going too.  And in this weekend, I visited three cities in south France, and the second smallest country in the world. Another incredible experience.