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Last week I’ve just got back from a short holiday in France and Italy. We spent 5 days in Nice and 2 days in Venice. In Venice we stayed only 2 days because we’ve decided to leave on Sunday because there are no big trucks on the highway (we went there by car).
As it's known, France is number one in the food sector and as a result I gained 2 extra kg, but it worth it, the food being great in so many places. Of course we went to some places and we didn’t like it but comparing to Italy they are way on top of them. I will attach some photos from the streets of Nice.




In Nice I met an old friend of mine which I grew up with: George Vasea. This is the guy I used to share french fries made by his mom or my mom before I went to first grade and it was a big pleasure to see him again and to see that he is an open minded man and that he is not just a surface thinker.

In Nice there is a famous hotel called Negresco which was designed on the inside by a Romanian guy. I went there to see how it looks like and why it is so famous and I really like it. The hotel is exceptional but I think anyone can make a hotel look great with a bit of style and imagination, and, of course, money


I was in Monte Carlo last year too, and the pleasure for me is the same. The whole Cote d'Azur is very beautiful but Monte Carlo is still on top. We also went to Cannes and St. Tropez but it wasn’t as great as this.
Last year I stayed in Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and this year I went there with Laura, my brother Dan and his wife Diana to have lunch. I am not used to eat 3 times a day as I should, and not on a regular basis, but for this kind of meal at this hotel, I will never say no. We took some pictures of the plates with food and desert. Of course I tasted everything and at that moment I felt like I had an explosion of tastes in my mouth.


In Monte Carlo we also went to the Oceanographic Museum, where the museum was divided and each floor had something else. We saw cool fish of different colours and shapes and at the top level there were prehistorical fish. There were movies with how fish used to be caught and photos of the Old Monte Carlo and old submarines and many marine stuff. Personally, I'd like to have a fishtank, but I can't take care of it while I'm always on the roads. If I will ever have a secretary, I think I will get a very nice fishtank on my office desk and ask her to take care of it while I'm gone.





I also went to check Port Hercules in Monaco I found out there was the Monaco's Yacht Show, which was happening on a net stand area of 8,750 m², on quay exhibition area being 14,000 m². To describe it in few words: luxury boats -> very beautiful -> big prices. I saw 30 millions dollars boats and sincerely I frozen :), i am sure that maybe they worth this money but I think that 0,1% of the people of the world would pay this money for a boat no matter how beautiful it is. Just to enter I had to pay 50 euros/person and at the entrance they gave me a tag and a bag to collect the offers :).


In Venice we’ve stayed only 2 days because as I said we wanted to have a free trip back home without trucks. I liked Venice very much and I will go back there even if it's very expensive. Just to sit at a table without consuming anything, you pay around 3 to 5 euros... but the tip of the waiter is included and it's about 12 %. The buildings look good and the small streets give you the feeling that you are in an old movie. In Amsterdam, the water from the sewers were smelling badly but here I didn’t get the same feeling maybe because the tourism here is way higher than there and they take better care of everything. Everywhere you look you can only see tourists and I think only 1% are locals and they work in the shops there. The shops are everywhere, you just need money there, Louis Vuitton, Armani, Hermes and many more were like the smoking shops in Amsterdam, everywhere.





Another thing I liked there was seeing the masks which you could buy in any corner of any street. I really don't think there is a shop in Venice that didn't have a mask to sell. (Brand shops are excluded). Also, the murano glass was everywhere, made in different shapes of cartoons and even movie characters.