February / March 2001

A dazzling festive season brought hundreds of visitors to Monte Carlo to toast the New Year in the Place du Casino where they were serenaded by an orchestra of 100 violins and a carillon of bells from a golden clock as champagne corks popped and fireworks lit up the sky. Dancing until dawn at the lively Living Room was de rigueur and then on to Jimmy’z where even $100 drinks could not stem the flow of revellers. …