St tropez grimes style....

St tropez grimes style......



Where do I start ? So much I want to say. We had our first look at st tropez yesterday. We drove into the land of the rich and famous not really knowing what to expect, except,well...the rich and famous. Well, let me tell you one thing they know how to pick the primo land. Really, truly, a remarkable landscape. The only way I can think to describe it is, napa valley butted up to the mediteranian sea. The town itself is full of old quaint,buildings of course. They are mostly peach, like in Spain.Somehow though they are much cuter. Many have teal blue shudders on the windows, and bouganvalia, this bright pink flower grows everywhere. Also jasmine and lavender and ivy are growing either in old clay pots or directly up the buildings. Tiny, windy, alleys which I really love cute caffe's , loads of fancy shops. I saw one jewelry shop selling diamond martini glasses, can you imagine that? Some Louis purse shop selling ridiculous ugly purses for thousands of dollars. And ridiculous looking women buying them.
Never have I been somewhere more entertaining to people watch. I am fascinated by the motorcycle riders here.At home it is unusual to see females on their own bikes. Here it is commonplace. Not only do they cruise around, weaving in and out of traffic,completely cool and collected looking, they often have a cigarette hanging out of their mouth, high heels, and sometimes a little dog sporting his own leather bomber. . As for fashion, it's it's another world. All the rich people , or wanna be rich people ,are dressed ,so you know it. The men are all walking around with pink or red pants, rolled up on the bottom, and sweaters wrapped around their shoulders. I don't think ,it's incase they get cold. Even old farts are dressed like they just walked out of a GQ magazine. The women all walk around in spiky heels, skin tanned and leathery. Just fun to watch.
So today we wanted to do a little wine tasting and maybe dinner out. So the great thing about eurocamp is they have a babysitter service. So after doing background checks on our little dutch babysitter, we ditched those turds and headed out for a date. After enjoying the best mojito ever, we set out to find some food. We had skipped lunch and it was to early for dinner, so we found a market and bought some salami, cheese, baguette, a cheap bottle of rose wine. We found ourselves a park bench in the harbor and had the best view in all of st tropez! As we sat there, a brilliant idea was born. I thought, what if, wherever we went that was special, we pulled out a table cloth, some candles some dishes and food and made our own first class dining experience? Here we were sitting , enjoying the same thing that these people in fifty million dollar boats are enjoying, but we spent only 18 euro. Why not get some take out and make a beautiful table wherever we go? For instance, a sandy beach in monaco, a vineyard in Tuscany, a mountain peak in Switzerland ? And why not do the same at home? The best part of any dining experience is the atmosphere. So lay out your tablecloth on whatever you can find, light your candles, crack some wine and enjoy. We liked our idea so much we went and bought a table cloth, some cute melamine espresso cups,and some cheap take out coffee. We headed back to the docks, climbed over a railing and set up the most romantic coffee date ever. As we sat there surrounded by all this extravagance,I took a good look around. What made this place so beautiful was all natural.The water ,the green mountains, the blue skies, even the gray puffy clouds. All of this is free , and natural and wonderful. At that moment I had everything that I ever wanted, drinking coffee with my best friend on a forbidden dock in st tropez.