I Say! Is this really St. Tropez?

Friday 10 - Tuesday 14 September
Left Sanary on Friday morning - quite a swell following the mistral - went into Toulon briefly and decided it was too big and too hot so spent the night on Ile de Porquerolles, one of the Iles d'Hyeres, very pretty but absolutely heaving with ferries and day trippers. Tried out the Cobb BBQ which was great but the Skipper spent what seemed like the whole of the next day cleaning splatters of fat of the teak deck! We are looking for`a solution.
Moved on to La Lavandou on Saturday - quite a busy, touristy place, but a good marina. On Sunday we were turned away from Cavalier sur Mer as too big - so we thought we'd try St Tropez - absolutely no danger of being too big there. Have never seen so many FB boats in one place - and one which even had palm trees on the back (above) - heaving again with tourists and passengers off cruise ships, expensive tacky shops and expensive, expensive shops and chose the most expensive place to eat - quite by mistake - honestly. But had fantastic selection of sea food and now thinking of chartering Sequel to pay for it. One night was`quite enough for all of us.
Now in St Raphael - Port Santa Lucia - for two nights as good rail connection back to Marseille for Debby & Adrian tomorrow. Very nice here and in a quiet spot. Possibly on to Cannes tomorrow where we plan to meet up with Sue and Mike. Would really like to get to Juan-Les-Pins just so I can sing 'Where do you go to my lovely etc...' before we turn back west to Port Napoleon and the U.K. at the end of next week. Weather continues to be lovely and at the moment 28 degrees.