Monte Carlo Weekly Photo

Grafitti in the Jardin Exotique? Anyone know what this might be? A Monte Carlo postcard to the first person to tell me. Answer tomorrow!

Fencing like this - looking as if it's made of tree branches yet in fact fashioned in concrete, is typical in the south of France and Mo...

We're out of the grotto - we need light and blue and sun and colour.

Time to leave. We've climbed 300 steps but with the heat in the cave, it's tiring - oh look, it's tiring anyway! You can see th...

Last day in the cave - these shots show some of the visitors so you can get an idea of the size of the grotto. Animal bones have been discov...

Coincidental with this series, I happened to watch a fabulous BBC programme the other day called Planet Earth in which the great David Atten...

We are looking down at one of the main chambers in the cave. You feel as if you are in an amazing theatre - a theatre of magical wonders. ...

We have not yet reached the main cavern, but even here, as we continue to walk ever downwards, we see the columns and pillars, stalactites a...

At the lowest part of the garden, suddenly we see the entrance (see smaller photo) to a prehistoric cave. Yesterday's sculpture was the...

What's this guy doing at the Jardin Exotique? Tomorrow, we'll find out...

Looking down on Avenue de Fontvieille from the Jardin Exotique. Notice a man talking on his portable in the roof garden.

So many colours in succulents and cacti. This one is almost like a waterfall - so blue.

Looking down on Fontvieille from the Jardin Exotique it's surprising to see so many roof gardens. In the smaller photo you can see a J...

Taken from the Jardin Exotique, this is Monaco's football stadium - home of AS Monaco. Notice all those roof gardens. We'll zoom i...

A lone flower amongst all the spikes.

Views in every direction from the Jardin Exotique. Here we look down on the beach at Cap d'Ail - Plage Marquet.

It astounds me that this plant - purple leaves (almost black) can produce such bright yellow flowers.

Back to the Jardin Exotique . Cacti and succulents clad the hillside. We are looking down on the circus tent in Fontvieille. In the smalle...

The first shot shows some of the hospitality tents and the smaller courts with the Monte Carlo Beach Hotel and Restaurant La Vigie in the b...

In the centre of the roundabout that forms the eastern boundary of Monaco and France, is a display of Tennis Ball Flowers - the tournament i...