Monaco # 1
The drive through to the underground car/bus park is worth featuring on it’s own. Most photos are therefore through the glass window. Even so, it’s a ‘wow’ moment at every turn !!! Seeing the highrise buildings and apartment blocks squished so close together, with the yachts – small to large to extra large … .. and the calm blue Mediterranean is definitely a ‘wow’ moment!
We were sitting on the ‘landside’ of the bus – this is the view I had when Mark, our Tour Director, disembarked to enter a control building (no idea what it would be called). All vehicles have to pay an entry fee into Monaco with numbers and names of all passengers whether it’s cars or buses. He told us to sit tight .. and so we did !
We were given the green light … on we went ..
.. .through some very narrow streets .. our driver, Marc, was a star squeezing his bus through the trickiest of obstacles .. wing mirrors just missing each other !!
Hubby got excited when we approached this part … a portion of the Grand Prix Circuit lay ahead … !!
Oleanders lined the streets all over The Cote d’Azure
Entering the underground bus park – sea level but there are lifts plus escalators up to the clifftop location of Monaco-Ville …
Up to ground level and exiting outside the Musée Ocèanographique which I have featured before as a ‘quick pic’ …
Next post … walk-about Monaco-Ville 🙂
6 Replies to “Monaco # 1”
this is really cool! I like Monaco a lot – always go there when I am in the region 😉
Hi Irene – You’re so lucky!! It was our first time in Monaco (first time in France) – we loved the whole experience. (My first time in Europe!!) So much more to see
cool! Well, have a great trip! Should you pass by Vienna, let me know, I could take you on a tour 😉
Thank you Irene – will contact you if we are ever in your part of the world
It’s such a beautiful place! Wondering if you got to have tea with the Royals? S
I’ve never really thought much of Monaco as a tourist attraction before. Don’t really know why