I think its the 16th, I know it's Saturday. One week I've been going and covered a lot. One may not think it's possible but for me it's great. I see what I want from each place, each country and if I want to explore more, I'll stay longer. I've never been big on museums so I believe I save a lot of time not visiting them. But if there is one that I want to see I will definitely see it.
Couchsurfing is definitely an experience. You expect, because it's mostly men for them to hit on you and try to get fresh, but you need to set ground rules as soon as you see them. I assume they look at it as a hook up sight. The cool part about couchsurfing is that you could see the city from the point of view of somebody who lives in that city and not just traveling. You save a lot of money not having to spend on hostels and tours. It's a great way to enjoy the city knowing that someone else is leading the way and knowing all the spots to go.
So back to the morning. I place my keys on the desk say goodbye and walk out the door. Standing outside the door is Nety with croissants. He told me we need to stop at the market to get coffee before going to his flat. We walk in and I place my things on the floor say good morning to Anna. Nety asks if i mind he takes off his shorts because hot. Sure. He's walking around in boxer briefs, I'm trying to not to stare but its a natural reaction damn it. So I set the table and we have plain croissants, chocolate croissants, cookies, yogurt, and coffee. I haven't eaten much lately so this is a lot of food for me. But I assume that I won't eat again till the evening, we have prepared a full day, a lot of sight seeing. We finish up breakfast and Anna and I are preparing our stuff for the day. I will leave my backpack at the house since I don't have a place to stay yet for the night. If worse comes to worse I will just sleep here. But I make sure to take all my personal belongings passport, money everything that's important with me. You never know... besides I'm already a little cautious since the italian is begging me to stay tomorrow to spend the day together. Wants to take me to Italy and all these other places. I tell him ok but, I don't feel is a good idea to stay.
We walk outside and it's a cloudy day not too hot which is nice since we'll be walking a lot today. We go to the train station and we purchase our tickets to go to Monaco. Nety is there to help us with the tickets and sees us off on the train.
Anna and I are on the train it's packed but we're headed to Monte Carlo, Monaco. We will then stop in Eze before going back. We saw on Wikipedia a castle there that we want to see, it looks beautiful. She is very prepared. Maps, gps, always researching all the different routes and ways to go for the day. I decided that I'm just going to follow since I usually just wing it. But it's nice to have someone that's organized like she is.
On the train its funny people know that were not locals and we get interesting stairs and looks. But they don't just look and look away. They stare you up and down for 3 minutes. Then when they look at my face I just stare them down with my eyes and they look away. So what your not going to acknowledge me after you rape me with your eyes, mean and women it makes no difference. Not exactly sure what they're always staring at. The style that people wear, the way they look, I wonder what goes through their heads. I mean we are all human beings we're not that much different. Yes we are from different countries. We speak different language but that doesn't make us that different. I mean why can't they smile, say hi try to understand what you're doing. Instead they look at us like we're aliens. But it's not just us to do it to everybody I watch them stare at everybody, every country I am in... it might just be a thing here and I don't understand it because when people stare back home we lla assume there's a problem. So maybe I need to adjust my thinking.
About 10 minutes goes by and we've arrived. It's spectacular. It's a scene out of a movie, we walk down towards the port. The train station is in the mountain, seeing a little bit of the city at a time. My eyes are not sure what to look at first, the sea, boats, people, fashion, cars, architecture. ..I am trying to take it all in.
We are walking 5 minutes and I've seen about a dozen cars Bentley, Mercedes, Ferrari, all women drivers and the man is in the passenger seat. This is my type of place!
We walk up and down the port, through the city, to the center then down to sea through the to the japanese garden. Admiring all the fancy people know the fancy shops. We are just walking..we decide to go for a swim so we stop by the beach, under our clothes our bathing suits. So Anna goes first comes out, not warm but it's not cold and then my turn in I go in. I'm floating on my back. just turning in circles looking at all the surroundings around me. It's amazing to take it all in. We stay there for about an hour amazing get dressed in the sidewalk back to the train station. Now we will begin our journey to Eze.