Life with MK: Three countries, one day.

This morning when I got up I decided I desperately needed Italian pizza, so I got ready and headed to the train station to go across the border to Ventimigila, Italia! The town was pretty quiet, but it felt so nice to have a few "chill" hours an I got my pizza! The farmers market there was also amazing a I had some delicious raspberries. Of I was living in this area I would be there every day for sure!

After I was done walking through the town (it was siesta time when I was done with lunch so nothing was open really) I headed back to the train station to hit up my next country, Monaco!

This was my first time in Monaco, so yay, I can check another country off my list! I wandered around a bit and ended up near the palace which was up a huge hill. Someone in my hostel told me to go to the Oceanographic Museum, so I walked around until I found it. I started at the bottom in the aquarium which was pretty cool. They had a great cuttlefish and more importantly a couple hundred baby clown fish! They were so small and so cute. I wanted to steal them and take them home with me so bad! They also had jellyfish and huge eels and sharks and other cool marine life.

After the aquarium section I headed to the roof to see the view. It was quite nice to see the entirety of Monaco. I headed down to the level below and to the left there was an exhibit that was okay, but a tad bit boring. When I headed to the other side of the building is when things got über weird. The first thing I saw was a cast of a human head. It was red and looked like a normal model or something until I read the building materials: blood (artist's own), something else I forget, and refrigeration materials! WTF!! Who makes art out of their own blood! That was seriously creepy moment number one. Then I walked into the room.

This room was full of more sculptures, mostly made of bronze. Most of these statues were of skeletons. These weren't just normal skeletons though. There were about three cross legged praying skeletons, one of whom was surrounded by actual flames, a kneeling praying baby skeleton, and two skeleton positioned as though they were having sex and were also surrounded by real fire. There were a few other super weird things in the room too, but I was creeped out and didn't stay in there too long.

After I left creepfest I walked to a sort of park area and read for a bit before walking to the Monte Carlo area for a bit. Monte Carlo has really pretty buildings that look very posh, whereas the other areas of Monaco kind of look like they sprung up in the 60s and 70s. That was such a lovely era for architecture (sarcasm definitely intended).

Anyways, I had a good day overall on my day trip and headed back to Nice where I grabbed a baguette for dinner again (can't beat a dinner that less than €5!) and headed back to the hostel. Hopefully I can get some sleep tonight through the heat! I don't want to be up from 4:30-6:30am again!