Nice - Marseille

Another busy day today with us leaving Nice and heading for St Tropez. First of all we explored the port and had a coffee in a called Sénéquier, the oldest bar in St Tropez and a place celebrities frequent… well Anne had a coffee – I felt that 9 euros for a cappuccino was just a tad overpriced.  I just took advantage of the free wifi, haha.

Next we headed for the beach.  Unlike in Australia, some of the beaches in France are private, but we chose a little public beach.  Something that I found really bizarre is that despite the spectacular weather ( 27°), there was hardly anyone on the beach.  I know it was a Friday, but if this was on Australian beaches, it would be filled with people. Anne found this to be quite normal and explained that during the summer holidays in July and August it would be very busy.  I dipped my feet in the Mediterranean, but that's all because it was pretty chilly.

We then went to a little village called Ramatuelle where we ate a traditional cake of St Tropez -  une tarte Tropezienne.  It is kind of a brioche texture with thick, creamy custard in the middle.

Next stop, Cassis.  Another port town where we will take a boat ride from tomorrow.  Finally we headed for Marseille and Anne did very well to manage the traffic in France’s second largest town.