Monday in Monaco-Tuesday Portofino OK! I know the rich are different from me but good gracious must they be so extravagant. The will be a yacht show soon and the harbor is teaming with yachts the size of ferryboats, very large ferryboats. The finance minister from Saudi Arabia has the name of the boat in giant gold letters on the side. The Niarchos yacht is here and the Onassis’ Christina, that old thing, can be rented for 35,000e a week. And here they sit, some permanently. We set off on a bus tour or Nice and Eze. The Cote d’azure is beautifully blue, the mansions impressive as are the old but refurbished hotels. WHAT IS THAT!!! I glance up from my typing and outside the window a helicopter floats by. It is nestled next to a
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