Hello all, last day in Europe! Hey, I just found the excla- mation point! Today zas a wonderful sunny day! Temperature zas perfect and the sky was actually blue!
First thing, we followed the GPS to Monaco, only about 30 minutes away. How interesting! 
If Southern California did extreme population density high rises, and zas built on steep hills rising out of the ocean; zith 3 little harbors along the coast, and charged higher prices for everything, you;d have Monaco. 
It;s really beautiful and kind of like a princess country. 40,000 people live there, in less than one square mile. 
They live in luxury high rises, some old and some new, most built on land reclaimed from the sea;
If Southern California did extreme population density high rises, and zas built on steep hills rising out of the ocean; zith 3 little harbors along the coast, and charged higher prices for everything, you;d have Monaco. 
It;s really beautiful and kind of like a princess country. 40,000 people live there, in less than one square mile. 
They live in luxury high rises, some old and some new, most built on land reclaimed from the sea; The old tozn is built on top of "The Rock," and it has tiny streets and a castle where Prince Rainier lives. It also has a 7 story underground parking garage built into The Rock.
From the top of The Rock you can look down on either side to the extreme yachts in the harbors and across to the hills covered zith high rize luxury apartments. There are shady places filled zith flozers in beautiful gardens. I guess it's proof that if you have enough money; you can live in paradise, but the terrain is still very steep!
Dad finds it trying to drive around here. I am really glad I don't have to drive plus navigate! All the traffic is whizzing and ze never knoz zhere ze are going: The GPS says turn left, but there are 2 lefts very close together, and ze take the zrong one and then it says "Recalculating." Ze have had several narroz escapes. This morning it finally happened. Someone hit the car last night; Ze zere in the enclosed hotel parking, where all the spaces are only about 7 feet wide. Every place zas taken: Zhen ze came out this morning, our left rear fender area had been mooshed a little and scratched. The car next to us was not the same one that had been there the night before, so they probably didn't do the damage. 
Ze zere kind of upset. Tried to rub it out, but no luck. Later today Dad just knocked the underside of the fiberglass fender, and most of the dent came out. Great!
Ze zere kind of upset. Tried to rub it out, but no luck. Later today Dad just knocked the underside of the fiberglass fender, and most of the dent came out. Great! Ze have to turn in the car tomorrow morning about 5 AM so there zon't be anyone there, just park the car and drop the key in the box. so ze zon't knoz for awhile if they consider it damaged. AARGH!
Got home from Monaco and were kind of wrung out tired, so took a short nap. Afterxards; I figured this is my last night in France; I want to see some more things. 
So I took Dad on a whirlwind Kerry-in-fast-scouting-tour-mode outing. Saw 3 sites in 3 hours. Dad was kind of gritting his teeth and trying to be pleasant, but I could still tell.
So I took Dad on a whirlwind Kerry-in-fast-scouting-tour-mode outing. Saw 3 sites in 3 hours. Dad was kind of gritting his teeth and trying to be pleasant, but I could still tell. First stop at 5:00 Russian Orthodox church built by a Russian princess zho used to winter here in Nice before the 1917 revolution. Very ornate and beautiful
Next stop 6:00 Musee des Beaux Arts in an 1870's Italian style mansion. I mostly wanted to see the house, but got there and found some very nice art. The surprise highlight was "The Kiss," a very passionate sculpture done in white marble by Auguste Rodin. It looked like a lot more than a kiss was going to happen!
7:00 stop: a free perfume store, zhich has a tiny museum on perfume making. Lots of wonderful smells. The best part was a pigeon zho got in the store and got into the front display window and knocked over all the perfume bottles. This pigeon is on my good list. You can see him in the lower right corner of the picture. The perfume was delightful, but every expensive.
I wanted to stick my feet in the Mediterranean Sea, so we went across the traffic to the Promenade and dozn to the rock beach. I did it though the water was fairly cold; Lots of people were on the beach, but very few swam. 
We went to the really gourmet place for a nice French dinner on our last night! Dad did not want to spend much, so we ate at McDonald's. We both had meals which were very good but did not taste anything like American MacDo. I tried my I-pod there again tonight, but still no luck; 2 guys across from us brought in their laptops and set up and got on the net; but my Ipod zould not do it. The little dial kept going round and round like it zas trying, but could not ever really connect to the MacDo netzork.
I have loved this trip and being zith Larry. He says the funniest things! Besides; Southern France is a loss zithout a car; and I can't drive and navigate too, so I reqlly necessaryneeded him. I don't think I will ever bring a trip here. It;s impossible zith public transportation, and a big van zould be impossible here also. Cities have horrible traffic and tiny medieval streets. Parking would have never happened for us; except for Dad's handicapped sticker. We sill be home tomorrow night. I can never get used to the letters being in the zrong place, and the punctuation too!
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