Monday, May 25, 2009

The French Riviera

Last weekend we took a trip to the French Riviera. The main reason to go was the Monaco Formula 1 GP.
We started off Thursday morning headed for Marseilles, the great port city of France.
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Then we traveled along the coast towards St-Tropez, deemed to be the pearl of the Mediterranean. Well people who say that surely haven't ever been in Dubrovnik, Croatia. I'm not saying St-Tropez is not nice, but to be honest "the best beach on earth"... come on, we could name at least a dozen of beaches we personally have been on, which would come before the beaches of St-Tropez. It appeared rather that the cars:
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and the yachts:
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are what give St-Tropez its name.

Let us focus rather on the amazing views along the coast:
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The next day we went to Monaco, see the dedicated post to the Formula 1 GP here.

In the evening we joined my brother who was attending the Cannes Film Festival.
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We had a nice evening together, Zsolt showing us around Cannes, knowing all the nice places since the Cannes film festival is not held without him for the last 7-8 Years.
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Sunday we headed back to Zurich passing the most amazing highway we have ever seen: the A8 between Nice - Genoa"
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We have a challenge for you:
How many tunnels did we pass through during this weekend?
A: 0-10
B: 11-50
C: 51-100

the first to post the correct answer wins a 1965 bottle of Tennessee Bourbon.

See all our pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/zoli.gyenge/EUROPEFRANCEFrenchRiviera#

4 comments:

Gabriel Petrovay said...

And the winner is....

I am Sorry Zoli for your bottle :)

None of the answers is correct. Considering there are more than 100 tunnel from Nice to Genoa, with only that highway you went over 100. This without considering Monaco - Nice for several times during the weekend (if you took the highway, but the normal road has also several tunnels)

:P

a bottle?

Krisztina & Zoltan said...

HELP!!! Where can I get a "1965 bottle of Tennessee Bourbon"???

I was assuming nobody would give the correct answer since the correct answer was not between the possible choices. Obviously I was wrong.

Gabriel Petrovay said...

No prob'!

We replace it with a series of beers by the lake or we improvise smth. Just make a Termin during this week evenings anytime

;)

Krisztina & Zoltan said...

deal! I'll get in touch with U.