24 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Parades
23 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Dressing Up
22 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century -Žilina to Sagres
I was intrigued with these guys' t-shirts. They are driving from Žilina in Slovakia (where they live) to Sagres in Portugal. Both cities are marked on their shirts. It will take them two weeks. They left Žilina the day before they arrived in Monaco. Here they pose just before the start of the Fête.
Hope you had a great trip, guys!
21 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Violinist
20 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Lunch
19 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Pirates
18 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Candle Maker
In the last photo, you see how the wax is kept liquid with the heat from the fire underneath. The little boy has a block of wood to stand on as he was too small to reach the vat to dip his candle into the wax.
The candles sold at 1 euro each.
You can see the candle maker's dog on Riviera Dogs today.
17 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Necklace
16 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Asses' Milk
This lady put some cream on my hand and it felt good, not greasy. I intended buying some before I left and regret I forgot.
15 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Gunpowder
14 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Programme Lady
I wonder if they had red nail polish in the XVIIIth century?
We see the Palace in the background - note the weather, low cloud over le rocher and humid that morning. No wonder the wine was welcome.
13 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Wine
It takes place on le Rocher, the part of Monaco where we find the Palace, the Oceanographic Museum and the Cathedral.
So come along, put on your 18th century clothes and let's have a good day out. And first...why a glass of wine, of course.
In the last photo, you see the wine cart being pushed towards the Mairie - the workers (and there were an enormous number of volunteers) were offered a glass of wine to help them through the day.
12 August 2009
The Opera House
A zoomed photo taken at dusk and from exactly the same position as yesterday's photo. The steeples you see are the casino building and specifically, the opera house, designed by Garnier.
Note the turquoise cupola far left. You can see a close up of this by clicking on the link.
11 August 2009
Dusk
10 August 2009
All Lit Up
The jury judges on creativity, technique and synchronisation with the music. In three weeks time it will be France's turn and then we'll have a result.
Note the yacht (centre, foreground of the main photo) with its swimming pool lit up. No one skinny dipping tho, which might have been fun.
09 August 2009
Hibiscus
My preferred photo in terms of image was the smaller one on the left but I felt the two with the wrought iron railings and view down to the port of Fontvieille tell more of a story. So here are all three!
08 August 2009
Lady on Bench
It's been a while since we had a Monte Carlo lady, so here's a pretty one on the Rue Princesse Caroline which is the pedestrian street leading up from the port. This street has benches in various places all the way up, so there's a usually somewhere to sit and chat.
07 August 2009
Parade of Eagles - 'S.O.S. Ecology'
The artist was the winner in his category in the 'Eco Art Parade.'
06 August 2009
Parade of Eagles - 'Yiskaago'
Interestingly, in the first photo, the eagle is facing one way and then, went I went back to photograph it again, it was facing the other.
05 August 2009
The Child and the Dachshund
In June we met a real Monte Carlo Dog, a tiny chihuahua, all dressed up in pink and owned by the owner of an art gallery in the Winter Sporting. That day in the gallery, I photographed this wonderfully effusive and adorable child with her 5 month old dachshund puppy called Titta. They were in gallery because her mother was helping the owner with the vernissage. They live in Genoa, along the Ligurian coast in Italy.
04 August 2009
The Palace Guards
The Guard is composed of 3 Officers, 15 Sergeant-majors and 80 Privates, all highly trained French military men. It has been reorganized several times since its inception and in January 1904 Prince Albert I renamed them "COMPAGNIE DES CARABINIERS DU PRINCE".
These are the Guards one sees each day promptly at 11:55 AM in front of the royal entrance on the Palace Square performing the ceremony of the Changing of the Guards. This tradition is performed in full dress uniform, black in the winter and white in the summer, and has not changed for more than 100 years. But this ceremony is only one of the many duties of the Palace Guards. They escort religious and civil and ceremonial processions; and ensure security for sports and other public events in the Principality.
03 August 2009
The Players
The players sit in a little niche outside the Quai Des Artistes restaurant on the far side of Port Hercule, just before Stars n Bars.
02 August 2009
Night: the Cupola
Let's stay in a 'night' mood after yesterday's Theme Day.
It took me a while to find out what this building is, so beautifully adorned by an interesting cupola. Well, I'm told it's a bank. Perhaps it wasn't originally a bank but hey, this is Monaco, so who knows? The photo was taken from the terrace of the Hôtel Hermitage looking down on Port Hercule and the area of Monaco called La Condamine. You can see the Palace on Le Rocher in the background.
01 August 2009
Theme Day: Night - Girls' Night Out
It's the first of the month and as always it's Theme Day in the City Daily Photo community. Today's theme is Night and this is a Girls' Night Out in Cap d'Ail, which adjoins Monaco. They are eating at Le Cabanon, a great little restaurant right on the rocks at the beach - very simple, great food.
To see how other bloggers in our world-wide City Daily Photo community have interpreted this theme - and I promise you there will be endless delights - please click here to view thumbnails for all participants
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