In this next picture you can see what I mean about tunnels and walkways and elevators and escalators. They are all over the hillside. Ed's got that Monte Carlo "Where the F----- are we?" look.
The best thing about getting "lost" in Monte Carlo is that you can always find the water and thus never lose where you got off the boat. AND if you get lost really early in the morning like we did you'll find flower, fish and vegetable markets everywhere. But by noon they disappear like they were never there. 
Lost again, Ed found this statue of an early race car for the Race at Monte Carlo. Since we are big Nascar, Indy, and Formula One race fans it was cool to walk the streets where the race occurs and now every year when we watch the race on tv we can point out places we walked and stood and it just brings back great memories to say we were really there. For one of my souvenirs I got a ticket holder with the Monte Carlo race logos. I put my Nascar tickets in it every year when I go to the Brickyard Race in Indy. Last year someone complimented me on it and asked where I got it. I was really tickled to answer "Oh, I got this in Monte Carlo". Cool.
One thing you'll love about Monte Carlo is the part of the French Riviera that you are on. The water is so clear it looks like the boats (excuse me, in Monte Carlo, they are all yachts) are floating on air.
And the shopping is so cool. Good thing it was Sunday and most of the shops were closed when we walked by or I'm sure I would have gone home with the Prada bag that my husband was pointing out in this photo or a set of Gucci luggage or a fur lined something or other. (Yeah, RIGHT).
Famished for lunch and almost at the end of our cruise with some money in the budget to spare, I talked Ed into lunch in an outdoor cafe right on the Riviera. I just had to take a picture of my 40 Euro chicken salad sandwich.
As if we hadn't walked enough, we found these wonderfully wide stairs and folks were all over them walking up and down so we headed up, and up, and up, and up. Even though they were relatively easy to climb they just seemed to never stop.
Low and behold at the top is the Prince's palace and a view to die for. (That's where I got the first picture in this blog of the city).
Heading back down from the palace, we found that there's an easier way to get up to the palace and that's through all of these cool little walking streets with shops and cafes lining each side. I just had to do a painting of this.
The only thing I regret about Monte Carlo is that I didn't drive a Ferrari. We still had one more city to visit and it would be the only city we would see in France so I was still holding tight to my money in case there was a "to die for" souvenir there. If I ever get a chance to go back to Monte Carlo, though, I'm gonna come off the 80 Euros it takes to drive a Ferrari through the streets of Monte Carlo. Although I missed that we did find the casinos and I can always tell my grandchildren that I gambled in Monte Carlo (even if it was only 5 Euros in a slot machine). Hey, its the principal of the thing that counts (Jane's sometimes Perspective).
