Wednesday, 1 November 2006

The French Riviera, Nice and Monaco

As we were driving out of Andorra I commented to Melinda 'hey there's no border patrol here!'

Melinda: 'Oh no i wanted to get a stamp in my passport!'
Adam: 'Nah not that silly, we should have bought a heap of cheap cigarettes and then sold them!!!'
Melinda: 'you reckon? You hardly know anyone that smokes?!'
Adam: 'No but I reckon we could sell them somewhere?!! There must be a market for them!!'

40 mins later (still on the same road with no possibility to have turned off) we were pulled over by French customs police! Car briefly searched and we were on our way.

Adam: 'Gee luckily we didn't try and stock up on smokes'

Top criminal I would make...

Any way, it took quite a long time to get through the Pyrenees and to a small town on the French Mediterranean coast. When we got there we got a cheap room that happened to have a balcony with a sea view (uninterrupted) with the Pyrenees in the distance at sunset!! To top it off, in the morning we received our breakfast of croissants and coffee on the balcony!!

The next day we drove to Nice, which happens to be quite nice. The only thing I didn't like was the pebbly beach, but the water colour was almost unreal (very bright blue).

We also made a day trip to Monaco, where I declared that I should change my career path from Engineer to 'Rich Prick'. You see there are lots of rich pricks in Monaco, they drive rich prick cars, have massive rich prick boats and eat expensive rich prick food.


Some rich pricks boats...

Some slightly less rich pricks boats parked next to the Grand Prix circuit

I had some trouble finding the local job centre, so I will have to try again later...


Future rich prick???

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the pictures and the travelogue!

Melinda and Adam said...

Thanks! I'm not sure who has left this message but do you have your own website?

Adam

Anonymous said...

No I do not have my own web site.
But you keep up the good work!

Melinda and Adam said...

Ok thanks! Do we know you? Are you going to reveal yourself! :)

Adam

Anonymous said...

Hey you crazy kids.
Good to see your having a ball.
Anyways just droppin a line to say you got nuthin compared to Singo
Take care
Johnny

Anonymous said...

Yes you know me.
I am planning on visiting next May.
But I will see you before then!

Keep up the good work though!

Anonymous said...

keep up the tempo with the travelling, try to post some more pics of locations. whats planned for xmas? if down under let us know. enz & d. love. peace. enjoy.