Seeing Red

Monaco Baby!

I woke up next morning to the noise of the bustling city, Harriet was in the kitchen whipping up some breakfast.

"Good morning!" She chirped.

"Morning!" I yawned "what's cooking?"

"Crepes! There's fruits in the fridge if you want some."

"Fruits? What? You think I eat healthy?"

"How stupid of me, you're still 10. We'll buy you artificially flavoured and sweetened garbage to eat soon." She rolled her eyes.

After breakfast and getting dressed we headed out to the streets of Monaco, we first walked around Monte Carlo. The district was so rich of heritage!

A little later her friend Gabriel joined us, he grew up in this place and knew it like the back of his hand. He knew how to get to places, the fastest way and just about everything.

To my surprise Harriet too knew the place pretty well, both of them walked through the city while I was literally dancing through it! I couldn't wrap my head around it, this place was fascinating.

"It'll take you four days Tara, you'll memorise the whole province!" Gabriel laughed.

"I really hope I do!"

"You see those apartments there?" He pointed to a very modern and sleek looking tower.

"Yup!"

"That's where Lewis Hamilton lives."

"No way! This all so cool, you guys live in a place where practically every driver on the grid lives!"

"Come on! Let's show you other driver's houses too!"

And that's what we did for the next two days, they took me around showing me the happening spots of the place and occasionally pointing to houses and telling me who lived where.

The days flew by and I found it easier to navigate through the city, I explored the place, looked for job vacancies but no avail. It was like a sign from the gods to remain a bum.

Harriet had to get back to work, I was all by myself. I spent the days mindlessly watching TV because that's all I could afford to do, this place was expensive!

My job search was not very successful either, I did get called for an interview with a real estate agency but the job involved a lot of paperwork and I wasn't so sure if I was going to stay in Monaco after all, what if I wanted to go back home?

The weekend was here, I was so excited! The streets of the usually slow district were packed with people and stalls, I was still soaking it all in. The district  underwent a drastic change to accommodate the street circuit.

"Oh my I want my place back! Way too many people." Harriet sighed as we navigated through the crowd.

"Are you kidding me! This is amazing!" I beamed taking as many pictures as I could.

We finally made it to the hotel, she spoke to the receptionist and we were shortly joined by Gabriel who took us to the balcony.

"You're going to love this Tara!" He beamed.

"I'm already mind-blown!" I smiled.

"Quick question, who are you rooting for?"

"Is that even a question? The Ferraris for sure."

"I didn't take you to be a Ferrari fan, you were giving me Red Bull vibes." Gabriel laughed.

"Of course she's supporting the Leclerc brothers, she's obsessed with the older one." Harriet chimed in.