Day 14 - La Torbie, France via Monte Carlo, Monaco, to Riva Del Garda, Italy Today was a grand day. We had breakfast at the wonderful hotel we stayed at last night. I should have mentioned that this was a hotel that Napoleon stayed at when he was in the area. Napoleon had good taste clearly. The breakfast was if you can believe it, even better than the dinner the night before. We were treated to freshly squeezed orange juice, coffee for me, hot chocolate for Syd, an assortment of croissants and other breads and pastries, fresh salmon, scrambled eggs with truffle cream (real truffles sniffed out by truffle pigs), homemade jams, fresh yogurts, and I cant even remember what else, we ate like gods this morning. On top of that we were able to eat
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