Monte Carlo day 4

Thought it was time I finished my MC blog off.
Well after three wonderful days our last day had arrived, we had the finals of the Monte Carlo masters ahead of us, I have wanted to see Rafa play in a final for as long as I could remember and at last the day was here.

We woke up to another scorching hot day and decided to have a last quick look at Menton and the Harbour area.

We had our little daily ritual of pre match vino at our little bar before the match then headed over to the courts.Our usual posse of friends were there when we arrived so after a few nervous anti junxing cheers for rafa we headed into our seats for the match, was hoping it wasn't going to be as stressfull as the day before.

Rafa was playing David Ferrer in the final and as I like David so much I convinced myself I would be ok even if he beat Rafa today (secretly I wouldn't be, but i was trying to convince myself) It was lovely to see both players and their flags on court before the match started.

Rafa won the first set quite comfortably and started well in the second, until he got broken but after a few iffy games Rafa broke back and was soon on to his way of winning the match/I can't explain how amazing it was to see Rafa lift the trophy and do the famous trophy bite at last I had seen it.

My few days here has been a wonderful experience I definetly want to go back next year and after the match we headed off to a little irish bar we had found to watch the footy, well my team Liverpool were playing and I couldn't miss them could I? After the footy we went for a last stroll around menton to take some pics and then it was back to the appartment for quick change and onto our fave Vegan restraunt, by the end of the day I was exhausted, a little drunk but one very happy girl.

Monte Carlo day 1 cont

Catching up again,back to day 1 in Monte Carlo.
After the Tennis I met up with my other half Ste and we set off to see some of the sights in Monte Carlo, on first impressions everything is veryclean and i love the muted colour tones of some of the buildings.

The weather by this time had really brightened up and gone quite warm, so we headed to the Harbour to have a look at the boats, some really beautiful boats were in and if my lottery numbers ever come up mine will be joining them.

After a beautiful walk by the harbour we were in urgent need of vino refreshments so we stopped at a bar which had beautiful views of the sea, we could have sat there all day but we wanted to get to the old part of Monte Carlo.Along the way we stopped for a glimpse of the world famous Monte Carlo Casino no visit is complete without a peek.Outside the casino I snapped a pic of a huge tennis racquet which I loved.

By this time I was flagging so it was a few more pics before we headed back to our appartment, you wouldn't think 10 minutes after we took these pics the heavens opened and we got drenched, but still nothing could spoil our first day in Monte Carlo, not even the rain.