Saint-Tropez

We enjoyed visiting Saint-Tropez! It is actually just a small seaside resort with 6,000 inhabitants, originally a fishing village. But because it is so picturesque and loved by artists (Matisse, Picasso) and the beau monde, it has 5,000,000 visitors a year! Particularly helped since the 1920s when Saint-Tropez was a magnet for international fashion stars and later the movie stars of the 1950s (Brigitte Bardot). In winter the town seems almost deserted (restaurants closed, tourists and luxury yachts gone) and the atmosphere of the past is once again breathed. We liked the city of Saint-Tropez, it has a beautiful old center with small streets, a citadel and nice pastel-colored shops. In this video you see the 3 harbors of Saint-Tropez: the regular harbor, the fishing harbor with small boats and the superyachts marina on the quay where everyone walks by to marvel at the chandeliers and huge flower arrangements on board. And 8 staff who are cleaning the stainless steel railings of the boat all day long, so that the ship always looks great when the owner arrives. It's nice to see the contrast between the small wooden fishing boats that should have been painted 10 years ago, and the hip million-dollar yachts. Because the harbor here is prohibitively expensive for 'normal' boats, we anchored in a quiet little cove just before Saint-Tropez. Nice view from this cove towards the city and the boats!