Yesterday I wrote about the chap who took six hours to erect his tent. Today's story is about an Italian family who are moored next to us in their motorhome. There are five kids and two adults in a van smaller than ours! The kids are amazing - they all have their little jobs to do around the van as in preparing food, washing up and general house keeping ... they are all very efficient. The kid's ages went from about four to eighteen. However, yesterday the eighteen year old looking girl behaved in an absolutely disgusting manner :) She came back from the beach on her own and rather go inside the van to change she stripped off naked right outside my window!!! I was appalled ... I didn't know where to put my eyes!!
There is a German couple opposite us, the fellow's eyes were also popping out of his head.....naughty girl!
Today we decided to catch the bus into St Tropez. Unfortunately the bus driver didn't like dogs and refused to take us, apparently dogs travel at the discretion of the driver. We went to the site office for them to book us a cab instead but they said it would cost 46 Euro each way.....bugger that! They then suggested that we walked down the beach for 1.5ks, then we could catch the ferry across to St Tropez. We then decided it was too hot for the doggies to do that, so we left them in the van ... we are parked in the shade of some huge trees so it is really cool inside the van.
Off we went down the beach passing some nice little beach bars ...
The ferry left from a lovely little place called Port Grimaud ...
Bargain price, 6.70 Euro for a one way ticket ...
Some pretty flash boats moored out in the bay ...
Check this one out, that is a fair sized chopper on her upper deck ...
The boat is owned by a rather wealthy Indian chappie apparently, called Ravi Ruia; he is worth about $8.5 Billion, now that is an awful lot of poppadums ...
Meanwhile back on the cheap and nasty little ferry boat the gut was catching some rays ...
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| ...and sucking his gut in ... El ! |
Elaine had a pose on the marina ...
This is the largest rubber ducky I have ever seen, it was about 80ft long!
Another pose with a beautiful ketch in the background ...
As you can imagine St Tropez is a bit flash and expensive and full of very glamorous looking types, we fitted in really well!
All of a sudden we came across a lovely carousel ...
And some artists painting and selling their wares ...
You have seen the boats now to the 'model' part of the title. She was absolutely stunning but more amazingly must have been close to 7ft tall!
The chick in charge of the shoot was a loud, gruff Aussie woman!
This boat was rather nice......
If you have the sort of cash to buy a super yacht, then a Rolls convertible is probably small change ...
We transferred some of our savings from Oz and emptied a local ATM so we could buy a couple of ice creams ...
We then had a walk around the other side of St Tropez....
We then went to the bus station to catch the bus back to camp, but the next bus was an hour away, so we went to a cafe for a drink, which completely depleted our savings! We finally got on the bus (with a lot of model types!!) and eventually got back to camp, once it had been around the houses!!
Lovely lovely place but tomorrow we will move on ...
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Where we stayed:
Really, really nice campsite ... the best yet ! There are two sides to the site ... one on the beach and the other across the road. The beach side looks out at St Tropez Bay and across to Port Grimaud and St Tropez itself. Huge site with brilliant facilities and really nice, helpful staff. They also have really good, shady spots available on the beach side, under the trees.
Razi Ruia happens by chance to be one of the owners of the international company, Essar, who for three years have been my employers. Razi paid us a visit at the refinery once, very nice chap he is too. I invited him aboard AmyJo but he declined. I'll do the same if he offers a ride on his little boat too :-)
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