Another
fabulous day. We had a first experience today in that the ship is at
anchor, not alongside a dock, so we had to be ferried ashore. We were
warned there might be a delay but we were in no hurry so we took our
time and, by the time we were ready to go, there was no queue.
Once
again we avoided the Holland America excursions and the hop on hop
off bus and spoke to a pleasant lady in the tourism office. She told
us about the five euro day pass we could buy for the local buses and
they served us really well. They took us to places the hop on hop off
bus didn't go in air conditioned uncrowded comfort. It was a great
way to see the 1.95 by 1 kilometre very steep principality.
Unfortunately
there was nothing particularly noteworthy parked at the casino, just
Range Rovers and Mercedes. We were obviously there at the wrong time.
Being
cheapskate tourists, we took some fruit from the ship for lunch and
enjoyed it beachside. The water looked really inviting although the
beach was a fine grain coarse gravel.
The
highlight of the day was the last stop on the route bus – Jardin
Exoticque. We didn't go into the gardens but we did get a panoramic
view from a balcony adjacent to the ticket office, the highest point
we were able to get to.
Tomorrow, Livorno. Bernie and Colleen are off to Pisa and Luca for the day but we visited those when we travelled Italy in a motorhome so we will spend the day exploring Livorno.
No comments:
Post a Comment