Southern France, Pt. 2
Train to Sainte-Maxime
Leaving Nice, we traveled by train + bus to Sainte-Maxime, a small town across the bay from Saint-Tropez (a better known tourism town).
This was the right choice, as it was a shorter trip and a quieter/less crowded town to stay than Saint-Tropez.
Train:
And then bus (with a dog):
In Sainte-Maxime my wife discovered that she had left her backpack on the bus, including her passport (crisis!).
We spoke with a very nice Dutch employee at the tourism office in Sainte-Maxime who recommended we wait at our bus stop for the driver to come back in the return direction.
This worked! My wife hurried onto the bus and located her backpack, untouched.
We had an amazing dinner and then planned to take the ferry across the bay to Saint-Tropez the next morning.
Wine with dinner:
Sainte-Maxime/Saint-Tropez
Micromobility is verboten on some pedestrian sidewalks:
We rode the ferry from Sainte-Maxime to Saint-Tropez (~15 minutes):
Saint-Tropez was very wealthy–no visible signs of poverty and very little ethnic diversity.
It is extremely walkable and dense for the most part in a small footprint:
There was a televised cooking competition of chefs from the area, and a little market:
We aimlessly hiked along the coast line to some interesting sites:
Paparazzi?
The vehicles in Saint-Tropez were fascinating in their own right:
Getting a parking ticket:
An entire 2-wheel parking lot:
There were some delightful baked goods:
Interesting subterranean public garage dropoffs:
Returning to Saint-Maxime by ferry again, we had a really nice walk:
Father-daughter meal–one smoking a cigarette and the other a vaporizer:
