Absolutely - Monte Carlo / Monaco. When I was 19 I was vacationing there in the summer of 1979 with my Triumph Spitfire along with three friends (19 also) and another Spitfire. We camped in our small tents at a campground in Menton, near the Italian border 20 kilometers from Nice. (The entire 3 week vacation cost each of us around $250 including gas and tolls from Holland, those were the days).
Two cherished memories from that trip, among many others:
- once I was driving top down of course, along the marina and briefly driving next to me was a Rolls Royce Corniche, also top down, with a grey haired gentleman who enthusiastically waived at me, then our paths went different directions. Sort of, a young poorer me meets up with me today (still not rich, but not as poor as I was then ;-))
- then, about a week later, driving along, from a subterranean parking garage in front of me, out pulls a crisp Pagoda, top down, with a beautiful woman driving, head scarf - basically the full treatment, and I thought to myself "Now THAT's how it's done, I will have to get myself a Pagoda one day". So that is mostly why I am here now.
