We hop aboard the Trans Cote d'Azur in Cannes and in just over an hour (passing a beautiful coastline of hillside villas, mountains, fishing villages), arrive at the jet-setting town of fabulous fashion boutiques, expensive restaurants, yachties, artists, and celebrities. St. Tropez hosts nearly 6,000 residents...and up to 100,000 tourists per day! Brigitte Bardot put this charming village (and the bikini) on the map in the 1950's, and today's stars keep it there.
Aside from great people-watching, St. Tropez is still a charming
French port, discovered by artists, with cobbled back streets, markets, local
shops ($5 paninis, with choice of drink), parks complete with games of boules
and petanque. But restaurants like Senequier ($9 un café) and hotels like
Byblos ($3kE pn) cater to the rich and famous in their own enchanted enclaves.
This
summer's collection at Le Muséé de l'Annonciade, "The color in the light
of the East: from Delacroix to Matisse", features Signac, Cross, Bonnard,
Derain, Vlaminck, Delaunay, Picasso, Kandinsky, and of course Delacroix and
Matisse. Fabulous!
We
drop by one of the beaches, then hike up to l'Eglise Notre Dame. As the day
lengthens and yachts come and go, the sky morphs even bluer, and on the boat
trip back, we again zip by the famous Corniche D'Or, arriving back in Cannes
before six...home sweet home :-)
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