Monte Carlo

This is the place where everyone lives or at least have their mailboxes. The huge appartment complexes are built on each other to use every square inch of the small taxfree principality. If it weren't for a clever planning of stairs and public elevators it would have been impossible to walk to where you want to go in this city. Through Monte Carlo runs the main street - Boulevard du Larvotto, where shops, banks and real estate offices lie side by side. It's always fun to look at the appartement prices (yes, you are still able to get a studio for below 1MFF), but the shops are boring and don't expect to see business being done through the dark windows of the banks. Watch out far the dog remnants that is evrywhere on the streets in this artificial city. It's not crowded with monegasques though, the only people you seem to meet on the streets are other tourists...

If you had the idea of the beach being as exclusive as the rest of the country, you will soon find out that so did everyone else. Here's a lot of tourists and the beach itself is not among the best ones on the french riviera. Still, if you like to look at and being looked at it's a good place to stay at for a couple of hours, but remember that it isn't fashionable with a lobster face to the nice clothes you are going to where at the casino... In spite of what I've said so far, really, who can go home from Monaco and not having been on the beach?

The Port

The port is probably the closest you come "lifestyles of the rich and famous" in reality. It is very crowded with yachts one more luxurious than the other. It is a stunning thought that these boats that easily can belong to a cruise company in the West Indies are private property. It is even more stunning as most of them never leave the harbour and function as party locations when there owners drop by in Monaco once a year...Next to the harbour is the swim stadium, where you can expose your body for an entrance fee if you don't like salt water.