One of the windows in the Eglise St. Charles, the church we saw yesterday. When the small window is closed, the design is complete.
31 May 2010
A Window in a Window
One of the windows in the Eglise St. Charles, the church we saw yesterday. When the small window is closed, the design is complete.
30 May 2010
The Orchid Tree
29 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - Heading Home
Thousands and thousands of people queue for trains to take them out of Monaco. Crowd control was brilliant - the police organised and polite as they let limited groups thru from the tunnel and into the railway station.
The Monaco Grand Prix is over for yet another year. If you've never been to Monaco at Grand Prix time, come one day. There's nothing quite like it.
Thanks so much to everyone who has followed this little series.
28 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - Heads
And in the smaller photo, somewhere in the middle of that Red Bull throng is the winner, Mark Webber, getting a mighty lot of hugs. (click to enlarge)
27 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - the Television Screens
In the photo below you can see a screen on the side of the stand that faces the Pit Lane. Note the number of people sitting on the hillside of le rocher, by the way.
In the main shot you see the winning drivers and the small photo shows a long shot of that same screen. Note the exit of the tunnel that leads down to the port.
With so many incidents this year, the screens were really useful as often we hadn't a clue what was going on other than we saw lights flashing around the track indicating the safety car was being deployed. A quick glance at the screen showed us a car broken down in the tunnel or that spectaclar mishap by Rascasse, for instance.
26 May 2010
25 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - the Noise - Listen!
We are at the Monaco Grand Prix and this is the start of the race. In the pic above you see the cars leaving for their warm-up lap but in the video below you see and HEAR (!) what the actual start was like from our 11th floor balcony. Thanks so much to Andrew Gallagher, who was standing next to me and recorded this 39 second video.
24 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - the Renault Girls
It wouldn't be the Monaco Grand Prix without some pretty girls - here are two working for Renault.
This was taken at the end of the race. I'd just left the building and naturally I thought the crowd across the street were for me. Then I realised they were all waiting for Prince Albert who had been watching the race from the same building. Just as well I didn't wave...
23 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - the Prince and the Venturi
H.S.H. Prince Albert arrives in a Venturi Fétish to watch the Grand Prix and later to award the prizes. Prince Albert drove the car around the circuit before stopping in front of the Start/Finish line. Venturi specialize in electric and solar vehicles which fits very nicely with the Prince's views on ecology and care of our planet.
Offering over 300 hp (+220 kW) and a torque of 380 Nm, the electric motor allows Fétish to reach 100km/h in less than 4 seconds.
22 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - the Yachts, the Yachts
The smaller photo shows the track that comes out of the tunnel - and in the left hand top corner you can just see the sweep of road that goes up to Casino Square.
We'll see the bigger yachts another day.
21 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - The Visiting Scotsmen
The sculpture is called 'Fraternita' and was given to the late Prince Rainier in 1999 on the 50th anniversary of his reign by GLI Italiani di Monaco. Click HERE to see a better shot. The sculptor is Sauro Cavallini.
20 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - Almost Ready to Roll
In the photo below you see Mark Webber's Red Bull in pole position. 2nd is Robert Kubica's Renault and 3rd the one you see above, Vettel's car.
19 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - The Dishy Policemen
This one is directing proceedings to allow the crowd to cross the road and enter the pedestrian street - rue Princesse Caroline.
The best way to get into Monaco at Grand Prix time is by rail - or helicopter. There are loads of extra trains and you arrive with no worries about parking, let alone getting into the Principality in the first place, which is pretty much impossible with half the place turned into a barricaded race track.
You leave the railway station with seemingly a trillion other people, past the sellers of Ferrari caps and t-shirts and find your way to the stands or to your apartment building if you are lucky enough to be invited - and as you walk you get more and more excited - the atmosphere sizzles.
And something else - on race days, the French police are drafted in to help - as per the gentleman below and in the small pic.
18 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - The Drivers' Parade
The red line you see in the smaller photo is the Finish Line and that square white building in the foreground of the same photo is where the winning driver will go to receive his award from Prince Albert.
And if you'd like the see the Ferrari Dog, please click on the link.
17 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - Aussie Rules
Well we all know the winner and here you see him - one very happy Mark Webber. He now leads the driver's championship.
The smaller photo shows the cars a second after the start as they race towards Sainte Devote and below, well there it is, the port of Monaco putting on a show. More tomorrow...
16 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - Flavio's Force Blue
Force Blue is 207.5 feet long. The former owner was Roy Speer of the Home Shopping Network.
It's often hard to get a side view of the bigger super-yachts in Monaco's port as they are moored tight up next to each other but I happened to be in the port the other day, whilst there was no other boat alongside Force Blue. The guy in the smaller photo was whizzing about on his little craft organizing where boats were to be moored, checking papers and so on.
I'm off to the Grand Prix today - photos tomorrow.
15 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - Getting past the Barriers
This is where I'll be going on Sunday to see the race - 11th floor and overlooking the Start/Finish line. Lucky me, eh? But don't worry I'll take pics to share with you on Monday. Don't forget to watch it on television - there is no Grand Prix race like the glorious Monaco Grand Prix.
In the other photo you see one of the barriers in the casino gardens. Obviously these gates will be closed early on all race days.
14 May 2010
68th Grand Prix de Monaco - Flower Power
And to greet the visitor, why a Formula One car made of flowers, of course.
13 May 2010
ART MONACO - the Kiss
I don't know the name of artist whose work is shown above, but I recall all his paintings featured Spiderman - presumably that's Brezhnev being kissed?
In the photo below you see the glorious work of the Armenian artist, Vahram Davtian. This is called Red Circus. This artist is represented by the Noah's Ark Art Gallery in Lebanon.
12 May 2010
ARTMONACO: The Lady with the Fishnet Tights
The lady with the fishnet stockings was a visitor.
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