Mamma Mia!

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Arrived in Nice and it's an amazing pristine beaches, I'm sure this is where all the beautiful people live... they really should do something about the pebbles on the beach!!! no sand!! All the famous people holiday here and it's easy to see why! Private jets fly over all the time. We love Nice and think we'll be very happy here!!!!

Headed out in the evening to a place called Wayne's Bar. It got crazy in there!! One of the girls for filled her dare from the game Ross, our tour Manager started on the bus, and stripped down to her underwear in the middle of the club...

The drinks were delivered to our table by the waitresses who walked along the tables to you. When the music kicked off dancing on the tables was encouraged! There was plenty of retro music so it didn't take much to get everyone up!

The following day Art and I went for a walk down to the beach and had lunch and wine before heading to the beach - the pebbles/stones were too much for me so didn't walk around on them much or go swimming.

My friend David picked me up and took me on a guided tour of the surrounding areas which was excellent. He took me to a small village overlooking the ocean, it had a town inside the stone walls and a botanic garden up the top, it was so amazing!

David explained the history of the area and showed me where Elton John’s summer house was and we drove back along the road that Grace Kelly drove her car off and died. He explained how Monaco was 2km squared in size.

Went back to my hotel and got ready to go on our group dinner to Monaco. It's lovely there, with big yachts in the harbour and Lamborghinis out the front of the Grand Casino and the Palace and we saw the track where they drive the Grand Prix.

When Monaco decided to become its own country people started opening accounts there to take advantage of low tax rates so France cut off the gas until they agreed to pass a law which means everyone in the world except a French person can open a bank account there. It costs $1 million to buy citizenship for Monaco.

After enjoying the view we had an amazing dinner and heaps of wine - our French waiter kept stealing bottles from the other tables and bringing them to us! Our table had an absolute ball and the Bomb Digity Crew was formed!!

We left the next day heading for Pisa. The drive along the coastline was fabulous. However it's easy to see that the Italian Riviera is poorer than the French Riverina. Italy has overtaken France in the wine stakes to become the world’s biggest wine producer. Italy is also big in the olive industry and for designer clothes/auto with big names such as Ducati, Lamborghini, and Versace etc.

We made our way to the Leaning Tower of Pisa for our token photographs; I don't have mine at the moment !!! I'm waiting for Artemis to send me copies!!!! hint!!! The tower is 179 feet tall and in 1950 it was leaning 1.4m off its axis, today it leans 4m off its axis. They limit the number of people that can go to the top each day. They tried to save it years ago by pouring concrete in the base but this only made it worse, they have metal straps around it and rods through the centre which they believe will hold it for the next 200yrs. I'm not sure I'd liked to be known as a designer that built a bell tower which after just a few years started to lean... They have replaced allot of the original marble and it's decaying at an accelerated rate. Who would have thought this 'mistake' would become so famous...

Some of the people did some pretty creative shots, in between being chased off the grass area by the police!

Pisa is the home of Pinocchio! We like to believe that he was a real boy!

Our Tour Manager says that Pisa is the hottest place in the universe. Am not sure I believe them... firstly I don't think they've been to Egypt in summer!! nor Death Valley in America and perhaps they left mars and the moon out of their considerations!!!

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Photos

Waynes Bar
One of our tables

Waynes Bar
Another of our tables

Comments

[david]

glad you enjoyed it
Hi it is me the guide :) glad you had a good tour of the region!! hugs