Yesterday we took a train to Monaco to walk around and see the sites. It's only a 15 min train ride from Villefranche so we figured we should go see it. It's a pretty diverse country considering its tiny size with an old world village, a royal palace, sky scrapers and a port filled with multi million dollar yachts, oh and casinos. Check out the pictures.
After that we took the train to a village called Eze. It's way up a mountain side built into the rock outcrop. It's an amazing little village. The door ways are barely over 5 ft tall, which tells you how old it is. There are beautiful vistas of the sea. You need to be pretty wealthy to stay in one of the hotels up there as it's extremely expensive. Our typical 4 or 5 euro glass of wine (which has been the going rate everywhere we've been) was 16 euro there. Also plenty of pictures on flickr. Allison and I took a 30 minute hike, (labeled 45 minutes, yeah I know we're amazing.) in complete isolation back down to the train. It was extremely steep and all loose rocks and soft sand. It probably was not our best idea, but it was really a gorgeous hike, and it was nice to be in the peace and quite for a brief period.
After all that walking around and hiking we headed back to our little flat in VilleFranche, showered up and had a very romantic dinner on the edge of the harbor overlooking the yachts and our little town we have really come to love.
Today we are off to Menton to go to Mirazur, the restaurant I mentioned in the previous post. Sorry for such a short nondescript post, but I wanted to jot it down before the grapes take it all away.
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