Provence Tayl's

I have posted a few photos from our weekend away on the cote d'azur for friends who keep up with our week to week activities, also for any one linking to the blog from our website, accommodationinprovence, as it is incredible how accessible such places are from the Luberon. Admittedly a day trip would be to short but a two centre trip would work well. That being said, we were fortunate enough to be visiting low season, in summer its a different place - not for us I would say - way too busy!




We really liked Gassin, a perched village near Ramatuelle & St Tropez with stunning views and some really nice restaurants. The presentation of the Marie's office gives an indication of the smartness of the village, but it is not spoilt.

This picture, taken from Gassin has the houses of St Tropez in the foreground, whilst on the other side of the water is St Maxine. What is incredible is that the Mountains behind are the start of the Alps.





This is the harbour at Cavalaire, a modern seaside resort with a good beach. It enjoys a very protected position from the wind.



The Marie's office at Ramatuelle is again indicitive of the areas wealth. It is a living hilltop village with superb vistas towards the bay of Pampelonne beach.



Moored off Pampelonne beach, the yachts 'park up' for lunch and the beach clubs come and collect the guests to bring them a shore.

We found this lovely beach near St Maxime, at Le Issambres, clean quiet and peaceful gently sloping into the med!


And our final stop was Frejus, where we rather liked the new Port, great restaurants, lots of nice looking appartments and a huge number of yachts.

Well time to go home and see what the gardeners have been up to!