This morning we arose to find ourselves at anchor in the harbor of the small principality of Monaco. The harbor itself is beautiful, with huge yachts and oppulent sailboats lining the piers. A red orange sun greeted us as we prepared to tender ashore to see Nice and Eze, both in neighboring France here on the Meditterean Coast.

We decided to take the trip to Nice and Eze that was offered by HAL. It was a Saturday morning and very quiet still as we left Monaco. We started the morning with a picturesque and traffic-less trip up the Lower Corniche and were treated to views of Tina Turners' home and Bill Gates' new Castle here on the coast of dreams.

Our first stop was to the open air market in center of old Nice. It was still early as we arrived, and watched as a world of flowers, the freshest vegetables and mushrooms begun to come to life. There were spices, curries and paprika’s, the colors of an autumn sunset as well as fragrant French soaps made locally in a dizzying amount of fragrances. I finally chose a potent Lavender bar as well as more subtle basilica (basil) and Limon Vert (lime) for 10 Euros.

We then headed to the little mountain top town of Eze. It is charming and quaint and has a hotel there that is $2000 per night for your little piece of mountaintop heaven. There is a good amount of climbing to get to the top of the hillside town, so I recommend you not have any walking difficulty if you hope to get to the top of the Village. They tell me the view of the Med coast was well worth the climb!
The first 2 pics are at the Market in Nice, the third a picture of the almost surreal beauty of the little town of Eze.

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