Hi everybody welcome to my channel Travelling with Bruce
In this video I want to welcome you here to Villefranche -sur-Mer in France
This is just outside Nice and Monte Carlo and Monaco
We arrived in Villefranche on the Norwegian Jade cruise ship
This is what we saw first thing in the morning We go up for breakfast and sat down in the
breakfast room and saw this fantastic view of these sailing boats a couple of yachts
and the beautiful hills behind the town and the stunning villas
After we landed on shore I took a picture of the ship
There is the Norwegian Jade what a great ship she was. She held over 2500 passangers and
1500 crew We took the bus on a tour to Monaco and these
kind of vessels were just a taste of what was to come
Right here you can see were looking at a little harbor with looks like a bunch of little tiny
boats Bit let me tell you these are anywhere from
100 to 150 feet long These have got to be $10 to $50 million dollar
vessels each
The only way you can tell how big they are is to look at the cars parked next to them
This is the Palace of the royal family we were there for the changing of the guard
Just off the side of the square we could get a glimpse of the populated area of Monaco
They have some viewing telescopes there I took a bit of a panprama shot here you can
see how packed the apartment and condo buildings are here
Monaco is the worlds most densly populated city
The entire coast line is maybe 6 or 7 miles long and it's just filled with wealth and
fancy cars and yachts There's a yacht here in the harbor i'm just
zooming in on, it's a cigarette type boat you can see that it is moving you can see
how big it is.
There are two people standing right at the back of this yacht
This is one of the average sized yachts here Here is a shot of one of the side streets
the buildings are packed in real tight of course they hold the Monaco Formula one
Race here each year and this area transforms it's self into a F1 race track
Here is a shot of the harbor with the yachts.
The boys have their toys and you have to keep them somewhere so you park them here
But you can't just leave them here and go away, you need full time attendants to look
after these toys 365 days a year These big boats will have a staff of up to
15 full time attendants with a payroll of $100,000 us per month plus maintenace insurance
dock fees gas and more.
Heres a gas station in Monaco where a gallon of gas works out to $6.50.
So if you take your Rolls Royce or Bentley for a fill up, you will need at least 20 gallons
at $6.50 per Man think of your local Costco the next time
you gas at home in North America Here are some of those apartments and condos
which line the harbor and the F1 race track I saw a Hotel on a cliff and I zoomed in on
it.
What a view they must have from this place.
A room in this place well you don't to know, don't even bother checking with Expedia I
would imagine that it's sold out in advance of the season which is year round
This building I believe is the Jacques Cousteau Aquarium
Then we see one of Monte Carlo's tallest condo's There are all kinds of cafes, ice cream shops
you name it Neat art work is everywhere the city is spotless
it is perfectly maintained with water fountains, garden areas palm trees flowers just nice
nice nice Here to the right is the hotel Paris and right
in front is the Monte Carlo Casino and this is the building that the F1 cars drive around
If you are a Citizen of Monaco you are forbidden to enter the Casino to gamble.
Only foreigners are allowed to lose money in the Casino in Monaco
There are about 40,000 people that live in Monaco full time and come from all over the
world.
Most are well to do of course.
The average GDP per person is estimated to be $185,000 per year but what makes Monaco
work and tick is that 42,000 people a day commute to work.
By the way we have Superyacht Insurance here not just yacht insurance
The 42,000 people that come into the area to work each day come from France and Italy.
Italy is about 13 miles away or so and France completely surrounds Monaco
Here's a shot coming back to the Norwegian Jade at the end of our tour
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