Posted by Ronan on Jul 25, 2006 in Uncategorized | 2 comments
Wow.. busy last couple of days.. We headed to Disneyland Paris last week, and I have to be honest I wasn’t overly impressed with the place. There was about 4 good roller-coasters: space mountain, Indiana Jones, thunder mountain and the best of all was Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Studios part of the resort. It goes from 0 to 57 miles-per-hour in 2.8 seconds followed by loops, twists turns etc.. However none were as good as Dragon Khan in Valencia! This is the bench mark.
Saturday morning we headed to Orly airport for our 7am flight, which meant getting up at 4.30 – not easy! Slept for a bit on the plane and after a little delay we landed in Nice at 9 ish. Got breakfast there and headed to meet up with Shellys friends Cathrine & Yvonne who were touring Italy and France. We stayed with their friends – Louise and Damien – who I must say were good to let us stay in their lovely a/c apartment.
Nice is a great spot – small – but it has all the cote d’azur feel. Strange thing about the place is the beach – or the lack of sand! the whole place is covered in cobbles – not easy to walk on or get in/out of the water. Saturday night was a late night as we went for dinner at 8.30 and had a couple of drinks in the centre of Nice.
On Sunday we headed to Monaco .. a great place to see and visit – not to live in. Ferrari’s, Porsche, Zonda’s etc are seen everywhere. What was strange was that people would gather and take photos of ‘random’ stars getting into their fancy cars and driving away.
Monday saw us fly back to Paris for out last week here.
Does the place completely shut up shop for August?
yah pretty much ! it’s very quite here at work!