Monaco

Today, I was catching a bus to Monaco for the day. It's an incredibly rich and expensive city and as such I didn't plan to go to crazy with sightseeing. I was just keen to wander around and see exactly how poor I am relative to some people. It is bad timing to come to a place like this as I am as poor as I have been since college, but it's still interesting to see. I started the day quite late while I spoke to the folks, but getting on the bus, even at midday, was chaotic. Eventually, I did arrive and headed to the Prince's Palace of Monaco. Although I didn't go in, there was still plenty to do on the headland as it exists as its own little town. Lots of markets, churches, and parks exist in quite a small area. It made it interesting to walk through. This took quite a while to get through, and afterwards, it was time to go to the docks and see how all the rich people live. This was as depressing as it was cool. There were some enourmas boats with huge crews, basically mansions on water. I walked around here for a while, suffering in the heat, before I started to head to the casino. The casino has plenty of nice cars out the front, a very fancy walkway, and some pretty intense security. It was paid entry to go anywhere but the lobby basically so I left not long after arriving but it was cool to see all the cars. I then headed home and grabbed a feed before heading to bed. I hadn't eaten out in a long while, and I hadn't eaten all day. As such, I bought a chicken pizza (for protein), and it was incredibly average, but I ate it all nonetheless. After this, I headed back to the hostel and got ready for bed.Read more