Summer Holiday - Cannes / Monte Carlo

Jack and Finlay with a Bugatti Veyron

Moving on and we headed down to the med, Cannes was our next stopping place. Four days to chill out on the Cote D'zure. Camping Bellevue about 1km away from the beach was our destination. Jack was chuffed to find a Lambougini service centre next to the camp site and was excited every time we walked past, he 3 or 4 cars and told us all about them, endlessly!

We spent a fair amount of time walking either down to the beach, along the front and into to Cannes. Finlay lover running along the beach playing in the surf as we walked long the promenade. We looked at the boats in the marina, how many millionaires are there in the world these days?

The big reason why we came here was to take a trip onto Monaco so Jack could have a look at the F1 track and do some car spotting. We got the train from the local station, an air conditioned double decker, made British trains look prehistoric. It took just over an hour to get along the coast.

 We spent the day walking around. Both kids really enjoyed it, Andrea wasn't too keen and kept wanting to do a bus your, but we just kept trudging along. We walked the track backwards, going from the mariner through the tunnel, Jack pointed out the spot (Portiers) where Ayrton Senna crashed while leading the 1988 F1 race.

A Koenigsegg

Up at the casino there was large numbers of exotic cars, I took photos of Ferraris, Porsches, Bugattis and Koenigseggs! Jack and Finlay were reminded to look and not touch. If I owned one of these cars I'd want it parked somewhere out of the way, not out front being crowded out by holiday makers!

Next we headed back to the marina and looked at some of the boats there made the one in Cannes look tame, who owns these exotic boats, they are way too big for a family, but we're absolute luxury! Several of them were registered in Douglas Isle of Man.

The Casio in Monte Carlo

Next walked up the hill to the Palace. Finlay was very hot and had took off his tee-shirt, as we entered the courtyard at the top of the hill the royal guard quickly stopped us in our tracks and made Finlay put his shirt back on, respect for the royal family. We walked around the gardens and looked out at some of the views over the bays.

Walking back into town and we headed to the front, Jack and Finlay had a go on a climbing route that had been setup and we took some photos of the kids with the Fangio bronze statue at Rascasse. It was getting late so we headed back to the station. Dad knows best (or does he!!) we got on what looked like the right train only to go flying through our station and ended up taking ages to get a train back to our station. The kids were both tired and got upset that we had missed our stop!!

On our last day in Cannes we lazed around, using the swimming pool on site and had a walk down to the front for one last time. It had been red hot and we were glad to be moving back north!