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Escape from Monaco (never been so thirsty in my life)
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#3 in a series of throwbacks from "Barcelona to Berlin, summer 2016"
Having reached Nice, train hopped to Monaco and found little to do there of any consequence, I aimed for a service station I remembered seeing on the map, due north. I had little idea of how to get there or how tricky the climb would be, which made for an exciting little adventure.
It ended in dramatic style with me having to climb a series of walls (which I annoyingly didn't get on camera) and popping out right at the service station where I indulged in a life-changingly refreshing bottle of water.
To cap it off I was picked up by two lovely, adventurous young French ladies who took me into to Italy. That night we slept on the side of the road in our sleeping bags where I awoke to a lovely view of the Italian coast south of Genoa.
Comments
tom davies
Haha that's mad! I might have been up there mate, staggering about. I'd bloody love to go to a formula one race, especially Monaco. I bet it ain't cheap for a seat though?
tom davies
Shit I'd better keep making it then!
tom davies
I didn't Conor! but i remember a fair few people bangin' on about it. I'd love to go one time. We might have been! I saw there around late August. If you saw a pissed up twat singing trouble by coldplay on the Kareoke in Morrisons club then that was me!
tom davies
hmm, not that many! about 18? mostly european..
tom davies
ay it kid! (im more black country than brummie) cheers Jim!
EJL
It's amazing you seem to have had so much fun in Monaco. I remember visiting Monaco a few years back for my bucket list item of going to the Monaco F1 Grand Prix. Such a blast. And it seems that even though we had completely different experiences in Monaco, we have amazingly fond memories of it. I, enjoying nosebleed seats using binoculars to view multi-million dollar F1 cars blasting by for 0.005 seconds at a time at 150mph, and you, considering drinking water from a random fountain you found in a forest. I remember using my binoculars to view the amazing mountains surrounding Monaco and spotting various hikers way up on the hills. If you were there on an F1 weekend, perhaps I saw you from miles away using my binoculars! I think it may have been 2016 that I was there!
HDdiamonds
Good idea I think that would be fun
Brett Foster
Mr. Wizard, I have a new idea - Street View Bingo in real life. After lockdown of course.
Blank Face
All this content lately has been keeping me sane
Conor
random question - did you go to sziget festival in budapest when you got there in 2014? I was there that year and it occurred to me we could have been in budapest at the same time
Limbo
How many countries have you been to? Gonna watch this in a bit!
James Shuter
Great stuff Tom. Love watching a fellow Brummie in adventure mode
tom davies
thanks Lewis glad you liked it
Lewis Collins
I could watch this kind of stuff all day, love it man.
tom davies
Yeah looking back I should have probably let it run for longer and it probably would have come cold eventually. Just didn't want to get ill. Beautiful place!
jeremie
Isn't it beautiful? My lovely region. But why didn't you drink the water? It is potable
