Monaco    

ell, to be honest, I wouldn't bother; what a total shithole!  It's as if all the buildings are stacked on top of one another and, whilst in some places this would look interesting, here it just looks a downright mess.  Forget anything about pedestrian priority too, the car is the dominant alpha male and the whole place is a slave to fossil fuels with a multitude of carparks and strange sliproads curving off into who knows where.  As you've probably guessed by now we didn't like it very much - if you like cars and bad architecture or think that visiting will somehow make you more important amongst your friends then I suppose you might get ten minutes of fun out of the place, but my advice to everyone else is - stay away!

As for beer, all we saw were the usual multinational brands.  An internet search found nothing in the way of beer being brewed here, but I doubt we'd have managed to get past the cars even if there was a brewpub.  Let's hope it stays brewery free so I never feel obliged to go back again - as if I would!  Let me just repeat that last bit - no-one open a brewery here, please!!!!  I think there used to be one but I can find no trace of it now although the owner, Joseph Berhauser, was convicted of war crimes but continued to run the brewery until he died in 1979.  I don't know if the brewery still operates although I doubt it does.

August 2006 - No, please let it be a lie!!!  I hear that the Hotel Columbus, Monaco at 23, av. des Papalins might have a brewery... although their website says nothing of the sort, a few hotel descriptions on the net have said implicitly it has.  Also, I have seen on the web that La Cigale, 18 Rue De Millo may also brew (!) - I am checking.... I am hoping...