Journey Journal Monaco Day 2 "In Menton"

Journey Journal Monaco Day 2 "In Menton"

I woke up the next morning by the Southern Thai dialect accent coming from the bank of the pool approximately 10 meters on the left side of my room’s balcony. It was Daranee who was chitchating with her Thai friend from Thailand on her celphone. As the villa was on hill and the pool area was surrounded partly with stone and row of trees on the other side.The sound could be echoed pretty well,even through the slide double-glass door of my bedroom.I must emphasize Southern Thai dialect is a kind of sturdy,heavy and somewhat manly language. It may sound a bit rough if you don’t know its genuin characters. If you hear both counterparts talking without seeing their faces, you might probably think they are quarelling. But there’s nothing such, rather than the sincerity and wholeheartedness derived from deep down bottomhearts of speakers, believe me. The Southern Thai people are very well known of being flocked. Like other social animals, we love gathering to the same species and hanging around each other when possible. No less than that ,we enjoy keeping in touch quite a lot or....other words...socializing with each other pretty much.And so...the loud and tough voice of Daranee that morning, was not an hassle and it didn’t bother me at all. On the contrary,I considered it  a snug good-morning call to dig me out of bed to join her a very fantastic and isolated presence on high hill. Let us just celebrate the day together.

Breakfast was served after our warm-greeting-hug whereat Daranee hung up the line and turned her face to Grace and me. Pleasant and Joyful conversation among us started consequently.

our breakfast that morning

Our forenoon activity that day was not much more than talking to one another ,to catch up with everything we had been missing. And also to tune on those social medias to let friends and the world know where we were and what we were doing. That was kind of fun thing so far. Well,whether they would be interested in it or not ,actually I didn’t mind. To speak my thought and words out on letters was what mattered me most.

Catching up w/ what we have been missing

Besides talking to each other face-to-face and leaving words on medias, Grace and I were enjoying swimming at the pool pretty much. Laying sunbathing was also one of Grace's favorites. I, on the other hand, prefered not to expose to the sun that much. In fact, I was confronting skin problem and having lots of pimples on my face those days. And so I tried not to make thing worse and was looking forward to seeing doctor once I was home in The Netherlands the week later.

GrcaeAnne was enjoying sunbathing along the pool

Daranee loved talking both on phone and to us. I shall say, we could spend that morning together harmoniously till the noon approached. Then we went for lunch at Darane’s restaurant “Royal Thai”again, planning to visit Menton later when the sunray became softer. Our lunch was great. Again they were selected according to our eating habit, some easy-digestable dishes,composing of much of vegetable then.
Later in the afternoon, we left to Menton,the pearl of France.Menton is definitely a lemontown. I saw yellow lemons everywhere. Parfumes ,oils and soaps, for example, are made here too. I smelled  fragrances and aromas allover the atmosphere when we were strolling along the tourists'walking street. They also say Menton is very famous for its gardens ,whether Jardin Serre de la Madone, the Fontana Rosa or the Jardin Botanique exotique de Menton, I didn’t see any of them I must confess. Not even seen the port and an old part of town. That’s too bad,I know that . Probably because it’s too hot and we didn’t feel like to walk much that day. Let me make a better story next time. I guarantee I will be back here and will have more to tell by then.

Dropped for some shoots

The main aim that afternoon after parking the car close to the market place was to get some icy ice cream  to cool our throat off and we did it before moving on to Saint Michel Church,where we went inside and stayed for a while as we were making  some wishes.

downstairs from St.Michel

Right, we were making wishes and if our wishes come true we will come back for sure to thank and to show our gratitude.We smiled to each other and...
Let's move on to the next station...

Till next time then.Pari
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Me and Daranee

Daranee and GraceAnne

avoided crowded street