Day Three – Monte Carlo

Started the day with a light breakfast on the balcony which consisted of bacon, sausage, scambled egg, hash browns, tomato, fruit, yoghurt, cereal and a selection of pastries, all washed down with juice and coffee. We easily burnt all those calories off by walking the daily mile for our ship shape dollars 🙂

Spent the morning round the pool then jumper on a tender to head off on our tour of monte carlo. The drive there along the French riveria was very nice, even with the guide babbling nonsenese the whole way. The casino itself was disappointment, wasn’t half as grand as we expected. It might impress the yanks, but we have more impressive buildings on our doorsteps. The guide was completely hopeless, she spoke so quietly nobody could hear her and was only 5foot10, even with her ‘follow me’ board so you couldn’t see her either! She actually managed to lose a set of people on the 5 minute walk to the casino, which is quite impressive! The area round the casino had so many high rise concrete buildings that, if it wasn’t for all the ferraris, you’d think you were in benidorm! 2nd stop was the palace, which was nicer, but we didn’t have much energy left at that point. Trip overran so we were 30 mins late for the first formal dinner, even after rushing. Our American diners actually spoke tonight though which is good! The dining staff sang us a happy anniversary song and gave us a little anniversary cake, which I would have included a picture of, but half of it mysteriously vanished before I could find the camera.