🇲🇨 Monaco

With the bicycles on the trailer hitch, we go from Mandelieu-la-Napoule to Monaco. We want to park our car in front of the city-state and then continue with the bicycles. In the village of Saint-Antoine, before Monaco, the parking spaces are full, so we drive up the mountain road and find a nice quiet parking space. We race down the mountain road with our e-bikes and, after a short elevator ride with the bikes 😊, we are at our destination in no time.

First, we take a look at the harbor area, and the number of ships here leaves us speechless. There are wealthy people, very wealthy people, and super wealthy people, and you can easily see the differences in the sizes of their ships. But even in this category, there is the mentality of "my house, my ship, my plane" ....😊

We continue towards the casino, but we are not allowed to go there with the bikes - so we continue on foot. The luxury cars driving past the casino must meet only one criterion: expensive! - they are luxurious and chic anyway. I have never seen so many Ferraris and Lamborghinis in one place.

After a long wait, we get a table at Café de Paris, right by the casino. Everyone has to line up here, whether they are poor (there are no really poor people in Monaco anyway) or rich. But it was worth it, the luxury cars drive right by and you can enjoy the unique atmosphere with a drink.

In the fancy apartment buildings, the windows are usually veiled and you can't see anyone on the balconies - everything looks uninhabited. Receptionists sit in the entrances and guard the properties, intercepting unauthorized questioners or visitors. I assume that many official residents of Monaco do not actually live here but only have a residential address. Whether they are present there more than 50% of the year is not checked - a fancy tax-saving model.

I am very euphoric and plan to move my residence to Monaco as well - a look at the real estate ads tells me that this unfortunately won't work out. Even the smallest apartments start in the million range - what a pity 😎.

On the way back, we end up on the access road to the city highway with the bikes and just manage to turn away 😅. After dinner in Saint-Antoine, we return to our campsite in Mandelieu-la-Napoule via nighttime Nice.

It was another awesome day. 👍