Globe Hopper: Monaco and the French Riviera.

Crash.net, the first website to bring the uncompromising reports of Desiree Crossman, girlfriend of Suzuki star John 'Hopper' Hopkins, to the motorsport world, presents her latest report - from the couples brief holiday on the French Riviera, and a day trip to Monaco...

"Hello,

Globe Hopper: Monaco and the French Riviera.

Crash.net, the first website to bring the uncompromising reports of Desiree Crossman, girlfriend of Suzuki star John 'Hopper' Hopkins, to the motorsport world, presents her latest report - from the couples brief holiday on the French Riviera, and a day trip to Monaco...

"Hello,

"Well we were suppose to go to Jean-Michel's (Bayle's) house close to Marseille, but he had last minute engagements he had to take care of, and we are here in Nice instead.

"We checked out of our hotel on Saturday with Garry (McCoy) and Gemma, and we all decided to give our selves a small holiday on the French Riviera. We all drove to Nice and started looking for a hotel. Gemma and I walked into a few hotels and asked if there was any availability. One hotel we walked into was a nice Victorian 4 star called "The West End". It was a Best Western Hotel. We asked for availability and the lady gave us the up-down look (mind you we were dressed like beach bums), rolled her eyes with a smile and said, "We are fully booked." So we said, "Ok whatever." Who knows if she was telling the truth.

"We then tried the "Sheraton". It was nice, but it cost a lot for no facilities and no beachfront view. We wanted a beachfront, we decided to be posh for a night! Finally, we tried one more hotel, the "Radisson", which was a ways down from the centre but it looked nice and it had beachfront. We went and asked for availability, "voila!" It was good. We got rooms cheaper then the Sheraton, with facilities and beachfront. We were styling.

"When we got settled in, we all sat outside on the balcony and shared some wine. John and Gaz were exhausted, you could tell. Gemma and I were a bit on the exhausted side too. Yeah we had fun in Cannes (for the movie premiere), but before that was testing, and before that was a race. It was boom, boom, boom! We wanted to relax, so we enjoyed the nice weather, a nice bottle of wine, some nice Italian cuisine, while John and Gaz played a game of Grand Turismo.

"Yesterday (Sunday) we just hung out and vegged. John caught up on some sleep and I hit the beach for a bit. Down here there are lot of Americans, Germans, and English, a lot of Swedes too! All we really did was run on the boardwalk, hit the fitness centre, sleep, ordered room service, and watched some movies...

...But today (Monday) we did something fun!

"Today, we rented a scooter and rode to Monaco! It's only 45 minutes by scooter on the coast, two lane road. It was really nice. John wanted to see the F1 track, but when we were cruising around, we ended up being on it through the streets! We went under the tunnel, around the bends, through the streets with all the bleachers. It goes right through the whole centre. It was cool to see and I can't imagine what it's like when it's the real deal.

"Monaco is like La Jolla in San Diego. A lot of really nice homes, nice cars (really nice cars), but it's really compact on the cliff side and it's built UP! A lot of high buildings next to each other, and really nice hotels. We didn't really see any nice beaches, but there is a small area in Monte Carlo where there is a bunch of restaurants on the beach and that's where we ate.

"Next to us were four women. I wasn't paying much attention to them, but John said, "Hey babe, check out that chick, she looks like she had one too many face lifts!" I looked over, and usually I don't like to stare, but this group of women looked like bitter gold diggers from Sex in the City.

"They spoke French and English in conversations. A few words in French, then switched back to English, all chained smoked, talking about hormones, cheating men, getting in bed with guys who have girlfriends/wives, wore the orange gold with the big Gucci black and gold sunnys, and yes... .one looked like she had one too many face lifts. She looked like her face skin was pulled as tight as can be, and stapled together in the back of her head. We were watching "Sex in Monte Carlo" while eating our meal. Quite the scene and conversation to listen to while eating. Oh well, how often do you get that?

"After that, we hung out on the beach and went in the water. The water was clear, and fish were swimming around. We then got back on the scooter and rode back to Nice. So again, tomorrow we are heading to Paris to meet up with the team, then heading to Le Mans for the race. This was our small holiday we thought we deserved and it wasn't too bad either.

"The south of France is nice I must say."

Desiree.

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