We drove down to Monaco a few days before Formula 1 was due to race there. There isn’t really anywhere to park a motorhome in Monaco, and it’s even more difficult during the race weekend. Instead, we parked for the day at a sneaky car park in Beausoleil, which is the French town that sits above Monaco on the hill. We then walked down. A long way.
The preparations for the race were well underway. The harbour was stacked full of super-yachts and the streets were full of stalls flogging Formula 1 paraphernalia. The conversion of a significant proportion of Monaco’s streets into a race circuit wasn’t helping with the congestion. To make it worse, there were quite a few tourists in cars and scooters with their cameras rolling that just wanted to drive a lap… including a large motorhome (no idea how they snuck past the marshals, but credit to them!).
Start line, with lots of drivers pretending they are in the race 
La Rascasse corner 
Piscine chicane 
Podium 
Yachts 
Fangio statue
After a coffee and some much needed cake, we headed back up the hill to The Van. It turns out that 300m of steps gives you quite a sweat! We then drove further around the coast to see if we could paddle in the Med again, which we last did in Spain 10 weeks ago…