Sunday, October 5, 2025

2 October 2025 Nice: Monte Carlo Old Town

 


Ding ding, Round two of Monaco.  We left the cathedral and made it over to the palace, which was closed until April and then we got some lunch.  The lunch was tasty at this little Italian place but they did not allow us to take the leftovers as there was dairy in the dishes.  So we stuffed ourselves and waddled down to the aquarium.  This place was huge and there was a top notch aquarium in the basement.  After that we took a different path into Monte Carlo and got to the train station.  It was packed on the train and we had to stand the entire way.  When we got to Nice, we had traffic at the Negressco and we discovered that here is a film festival going on!


A little harbor off to the western corner


It is being developed for new residents


Tightly packed 


Of course there was ample dockage for the boats


Cuties


A very old sign


Very pretty shrine


An art gallery


Le Woof!


A very large sailboat


Up at the palace


Dogs!


A mini tour de Monaco


And a big brass band


The palace square


With the mini train


A covered road


Inside the house is a guard


Up on top of the hill


A shrine


Packed into our lunch spot


The menu


We almost grabbed some desserts 


Lou's carbonara, Leslie got gnocchi and I had a pizza


Extra herbs


Back out and passing a art gallery


Fine tilework


We popped into another tiny church


A very dark church with lit up knaves


A water fountain


We have arrived at the aquarium


A building on top of the building


We all live in a yellow submarine


A yellow submarine, a yellow submarine


In the front gate we go


A fish-nado


A seahorse


A nautilus 


Bright coral and fish


A tank with trash


There was a very big tank, this fish had a big nose


Lots of different fish


Elephant nose


Vertical fish


Grass eels


Do I amuse you?  Clown fish


A great looking angelfish


Most fancy


Seahorse male


Jellies!


Octopod!


The elusive axolotl 


Eel tail



An outdoor turtle tank


A great tank


We took a different route back


Old motor card zipping by


Nice mustache


More fancy walls


The entire country fits in this bowl in the mountains


The city and the port


The cars catch up with us


Looking back up the hill


Halfway down the hill


The this bike made the hoho go slow-slow


I see faces in the bluffs


In the downtown


The cutest little dog


Dog butt!


General Mutt


A big blue bucket of what?


Fantastic iron work


At the Mercedes dealer they had these plastic nerds


I got a wiff of Steak 'n Shake and sure enough


Here was a Steak n Shake


In the train station


Well lit


Great logos on the trains


Film festival cars blocking the road


We got a better look at the Negressco


A very fancy valet


Nice front door


We saw a mascot on the beach


Some sort of cow


A very cute family


   It has been 3 years and 118 days since we began our Migration