Baby you can drive my car

I like to be in Monaco and just sit on a terrace and observe the people walking by, the cars, the yachts, but I don’t really have the time for it.
Today however the weather was great and my meeting was on the terrace next to Maxim’s and a great place for coffee and funny things.

My meeting was a bit late and I ordered a coffee in advance and started to have a look at the people passing. As usual there were many elderly couples, well dressed and carrying ridiculous looking small dogs in even more ridiculous expensive carrier bags. Than there are of course the women of the rich Monaco based businessmen that have the extremely hard task to spend theirs husbands (or lover) money quicker than the price of a barrel of oil is raising.

It is a skill and they feed it every day with grace and skill. Observing them closely it almost felt like they are under pressure to spend more, quicker and on sillier things than their colleague gold digger friend… Switching my attention to cars than. In Monaco you can basically see any type of car Before it comes on the market and although Monaco is only 2km2 and has a speed limit of 50km, the amount of fast and seriously expensive cars is mind boggling.

Some are old timers that are being driving by an eccentric millionaire that is really having a laugh. Than there are the Ferrari’s in all colours (yellow is nouveau riche and spells bad taste) and of course the cars that are so special that they make heads turns and traffic stop. But for me the funniest things are the 4x4. The Hummers, Cayenne, Mercedes G etc etc are so big and getting bigger every time that Monaco is having to change its parking spaces to cater for them. However the thing that makes me smile the most is the drivers, women that go shopping in these cars but generally drive tiny cars or no car at all.

This causes many situations that make me smile. A huge Cayenne stucked in the last corner of the parking, a Hummer that takes up three parking spaces and takes the lady 20 attempts to get it parked. But the best one remains a lady that drives a large Bentley that is so complicated for her to drive that when she is in the port of Monaco she parks it at the Riva garage (boats!!!) and smiles to the workers and each day there is a lucky worker that gets to turn around the car and take the corner that she is not be able to take. Only in Monaco !