Today we went to Monaco which is the second to smallest country in the world. They have their own government and everything. They don't have a king, but they have princes. We toured the castle, which royalty still live there. It was neat. It's onto of a cliff overlooking the sea. It has a great view.
One thing that I thought was interesting about Monaco is that it used to have its own language. Nice used to have its own language too. I saw some writing in both languages, and they just look like any other Romance language. I could read them for the most part. It made me wonder is almost every city had it's own language that was just a little different, then one city just got bigger and took over then rest, or there were treaties made, and the languages found middle grown.
Monaco is just one great big city that's very very rich. It has the Monte Carlo casino. I got to go inside the first part of the casino. It looked a lot like a Palace with all the Baroque style architecture, but it had shot machines the same as any other crumby casino. It didn't smell as bad though. I also saw a big screen TV on the wall of the casino. It had a rugby match going. I thought the big screen TV looked funny next to the old time art and architecture.
Everything in Monaco is pretty high class. We went window shopping at some of the really high end stores, but we didn't go in. For one we couldn't afford anything in there, and the sales people were really intimidating. It was like with their eyes they were telling you that you weren't worthy enough to come into their store.
Monaco is also home of the World Grand Prix, which is in 3 weeks they said, so they were definitely getting ready for that. I won't get to see it though: firstly it's too expensive, and also I'll be in Paris that week.
We also saw a lot of gardens and views. I think the pictures will help explain it better than I can, so I'll just post those.
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