21 November 2010

Old Soul


Do you ever wonder what kids are thinking?  This guy looks like he is an old soul with young shoulders, but perhaps the reality is he just want to get home to play with his Nintendo?

This was taken in the market in Place d'Armes.

20 November 2010

The Lady with the Pearls


More detail from the house we saw yesterday.

19 November 2010

Detail


Here's a detail from the house we saw yesterday.  Just a few steps from Port Hercule and such delights await!

18 November 2010

Rue des Acores


Monaco isn't all Belle Epoque hotels, super yachts and beautiful people.   If you walk a few steps from the port you find small streets with interesting old buildings, speciality shops, family-run restaurants and people walking home with their shopping.  The market on Place d'Armes is just above us to the left.

17 November 2010

A Frenchman's Hands


Have you ever met a Frenchman who doesn't use his hands?  Or an Italian?  This was taken in one of my favourite restaurants in Beaulieu-sur-Mer.  It's called Les Vents d'Anges.

16 November 2010

Dreadlocks


This is one of the servers at a restaurant at the Monaco Yacht Show.  I've always adored dreadlocks.

15 November 2010

November Sun


Three Monte Carlo ladies sit by the fountain in the Casino Gardens enjoying the gentle November sun.

14 November 2010

Balance


Do you ever feel like this after a late night!

This was taken outside an art gallery in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Apologies, I don't know the name of the sculptor.

13 November 2010

The Whizzing World


This was taken at the Monaco Yacht Show. It was extraordinary to walk into this section and suddenly see this enormous 'world' whizzing around on the gigantic screen. All very high tech and that seems to be what Imtech Marine is about.

12 November 2010

Elsa's Table


A table at the Elsa Restaurant in the newly refurbished Monte Carlo Beach Hotel, looking towards the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort.

11 November 2010

The Coat Hook


The Casino Gardens have it all - including, it seems, a hook for your jacket.

10 November 2010

The Oval Window


A detail on the Casino building. You only have to 'look up' in Monaco to see such joys.

09 November 2010

Fur


There's an awful lot of fur on display in the shops this year. I'd like to think it's 'faux' but I fear it's the real thing.

There is a girl I know who would probably love this little Dior number. She's called Barbie of the Day and you can find her by clicking on the link.

08 November 2010

A View from Cap Martin


We've walked past the point of Cap Martin and are on the Promenade Le Corbusier. In the distance we see Monaco.

The smaller shot was taken from le rocher, looking down over Port Hercule and in the distance is Cap Martin - where I was standing to take the main photo. Beyond Cap Martin is Italy.

07 November 2010

Brigitte for President


Brigitte Bardot, screen icon and animal rights activist may run for the French presidency in France's 2012 elections. The 76 year old star of 'And God Created Woman' has been asked to stand by the Ecology Party. In a letter to Mr Sarkozy, she told the president that 'someone's voice is needed to defend animals as neither the Right nor the Left give a damn!'

Read more here - Daily Telegraph.

This painting of the star stands in the window of an art dealer in the Scala building in Monaco.

06 November 2010

Hermitage Hotel


A double 'H' for the HĂŽtel Hermitage. Brass, set into the paving of the street in front of the hotel.

05 November 2010

Noriko and Kaito


Crossing the Casino Gardens is always a pleasure and often a great place to grab a photo - a tree, a flower, people. And of course, with a camera in my hand, I often get handed a camera and asked to snap a couple or a family.

That's what happened a couple of days ago. Lovely Noriko asked if I would photograph her and her son in front of one of the fountains and afterwards I asked if I could repeat this on my camera and here it is. Noriko is Japanese and lives in Liguria which is across the border in Italy. And how adorable is her son Kaito!

04 November 2010

Cigarette Break


A book, a cigarette - a break from work at one of the up-market fashion or jewellry shops on Allée Serge-de-Diaghilev, just off Casino Square. The street is named after the famous Russian dancer who founded the Ballets Russes.

03 November 2010

Off to work we go...


The side entrance to the Café de Paris - almost time to start serving lunch. Don't you love the beautiful Art Nouveau glass.

02 November 2010

Jean Reno?


This guy was part of a football team made of up French firemen - in Monaco for a national game. Some of the players dragged this man forward, teasing him and telling me he looked like French actor, Jean Reno and insisting I photograph him. So I did.

01 November 2010

The Bateau Bus


The solar-powered Bateau Bus is Monaco's most fun form of public transport. It takes off from the
Terminal CroisiĂšre (where the big cruise ships come in) and crosses Port Hercule every twenty minutes. And at only 1 euro it's probably the world's cheapest charter and a fabulous way to get up close and personal with the mega yachts in the harbour.

To see how other bloggers in the City Daily Photo community have interpreted today's theme of 'Public Transportation' please click here to view thumbnails for all participants

31 October 2010

Zoom on the Palace


We're looking at the Palace taken from the far side of the port - below Casino Square. That's a long way for my relatively small zoom.

30 October 2010

Hector Berlioz


The Hector Berlioz sculpture stands in the small garden just below the entrance to the Monte Carlo Opera House. It was erected in 1903 to mark the centenary of this celebrated composer and conductor's birth. Berlioz died in 1869.

29 October 2010

Ready Money


One of the wrought-iron lamps hanging over the entrance to the Casino.

'Ready money is Aladdin's lamp' ~ Lord Byron

28 October 2010

Moonaco!


At the recent Monaco Yacht Show, the company called Moonen Yachts drew attention to themselves with this sign - and it worked!

27 October 2010

The Knot in the Beard


Deep in thought sitting on a bench outside Decathlon. How does he do that clever thing to his beard?

26 October 2010

The Recycling Bins


I wouldn't normally post a photo of a rubbish bin, but these have to be the neatest, cleanest re-cycling bins I've ever seen. In France, they are enormous and usually overflowing and often dirty.

We're in Fontvieille, almost opposite the Columbus Hotel and with the Princess Grace Rose Garden behind that tall hedge you see on the left of the small photo.

25 October 2010

Email with View


The terrace below the Elsa restaurant at the Monte Carlo Beach Hotel is a good place to check emails.

24 October 2010

Late Afternoon


Late afternoon sun on the yachts in the bay although it's already left the square by the Grimaldi Forum. This was taken on the last day of the Monaco Yacht Show hence so many boats out at sea. That's Cap Martin off to the left.

23 October 2010

Chanel's Snow Lady


Last winter we had snow in Monaco so Chanel have produced an outfit to keep us all warm! Meanwhile, one of the gardeners in Casino Square works in his shirt sleeves.

22 October 2010

The Truck on Stilts


You don't really expect to see a truck on stilts in Monaco. I turned the corner in Fontvieille, just by the Princess Grace Rose Garden, and there it was. It houses a sort of cradle that gets the guys who prune the trees high up into the branches.

And naturally, because it's Monaco, notice how clean and shiny it is.

21 October 2010

Trimming the Olive Trees


We in the centre of Fontvieille today. Three men - one steadies the ladder, one is half way up and there's another hidden in the branches.

20 October 2010

Tree Lopping Time in Monaco


It's tree pruning time near the Princess Grace Rose Garden in Fontvieille and the guys are all so friendly.

Rather him than me tho! That's a long ladder and look, he's not standing on it, but on a contraption wrapped around the palm he is lopping.

19 October 2010

Shine


More of Villefranche-sur-Mer's charming old village.

Tomorrow - back to Monaco.
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