09.04.06

Kat on visit

Posted in Visitors at 5:47 pm by tesstess

The 15th of August Katarina, my very best and oldest childhood friend came to visit me down here for ten days.

It was a real pleassure to have her here with me! I hoped she wouldn’t get too lonely when I was working all days, but she was surprisingly good at making up things to do so I didn’t need to worry.

Of course I brought Kat with me when climbing. Here she is up on a, for beginners, quite difficult route.

Here is the view of Monaco from La Tete du Chien. We climbed on the other side of this cliff so we didn’t se the view when climbing, but here on the way back we stopped and enjoyed the wonderful view.

This is the view at the Nice side of the cliff. At the middle you see the climbing site.

One day we went to Monaco where I never was before. It was fun to go exploring together. Kat and I makes a good couple for touristing since we have so similar tastes on what to do.

We took the tourist train around the city. It had headphones where the story of the place were told. Luckily for us, one could chose the language so we didn’t have to have it in french.

For example we learned that what you can see on the picture above is part of an extension of Monaco. They have built houses out in the water and in this way increased the area of the land with 17%.

After being in Monaco we were quite hungry and drove up to La Turbie above Monaco and found the perfect restaurant where we could sit in the sun and have a view of the mountains and the sea.

On the way home we didn’t want to take the highway directly so we crossed it and drove up into the mountains. Here we found cute villages. Unfortunately it was a bit dark for taking photos, but I’ll include one just to show how beautiful the sky was.

On the friday night we went to a party in a house in Antibes.

Unfortunately I don’t have so many good pictures from here, people tend to look quite strange at photos taken at parties… so the one above is one of the best ones even if half the photo is fille with a pink shirt.

Here is Kat and Eric. I had heard that there would be a cafe in Golfe Juan where there were swing dancing on Wednesdays. It was a bit early for the dancing when we arrived so we spent most of the evening eating ice cream and chatting. I and Kat danced to a few songs later on, but since I am not a very good leader and the floor allowed no twists we went back to the table quite soon.

Kat brought her pearls, so some of the evenings we sat at my small table and made bracelets and ear rings. A very nice hobby which I miss doing when I have none of my pearl loving friends from home around.

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