Mission: Monaco

I suppose it's because my next birthday is the BIG 3-0 but recently I have been looking at certain things and thinking to myself, right, I should really just do that. For example, watching the Monaco F1 Grand Prix in all it's sun-kissed and high glamour glory, I got the strong urge to be there. I'd really love to go and watch a Grand Prix and if you have to pick one, it's surely got to be Monaco. The location and the event as a spectacle is just amazing.

So with this in mind I have made it my mission to attend the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix in some capacity. Now of course we come to the situation of cold hard cash and the main stumbling block of me not having any of it. I then thought to myself there must be some way around this. Some way of doing it on the cheap. A quick search on google and voila! an article on the very subject:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/jun/17/escape.france

It seems very do-able. Simply get cheap flights to Nice, maybe rent a car and camp at this fantastic looking camp site in between Nice (6km away) and Monaco (8km away). Simple. Ney problem.

http://www.campingromarins.com/

I think it's a perfect plan. As long as you get in early and book as soon as humanly possible I reckon it's a total winner. Even if you were to just attend the qualifying session and stay away from the no doubt utterly manic race day itself. Because of the location there are plenty of other places to visit, maybe go for a week, maybe just go for 4 days or something? Now all I need to do is see it through. I can't let this sudden surge of determination (and desperation to make a dent in the life's to-do list) pass me by. I must get these things done otherwise I will be stuck in the pit lane of 30-something whilst all the things I want to do whiz past me as fast as Jenson Button on the home straight to the checkered flag.