Pampelonne, Ramatuelle & St Tropez (4 Viewers)

[Abacist]

We are at the aire by the beach on the western end of Pampelonne beach. It’s now off season so €20 per night plus tourist tax. Very large aire! The beach is all of 50m away and there is a good beach cafe/restaurant and another just up the hill. There is a “Petit Train” which goes round and around during the day so you can get from a more remote campsite via the local posh new Spar shop to the beach which is free. The bus to St Tropez is the 875 which goes from the Spar shop at €2.5 each way for adults. There is another local bus which does a circuit of local villages to bring people to the beach. We are going on this this morning to the Sunday market at Ramatuelle. A bread van visits daily at about 8:30am. The old Aire at the eastern end of the beach at Les Tamaris is no more.

 

[Abacist]

 

[Abacist]

The local clientele at the Spar shop!

 

[Abacist]

Morning queue for the bread van

 

[EuroTrotters]

Had my first holiday there as a teenager, in the late 70’s.

When I say 1st holiday, it was my first. I had never been away.

We took our children to San trop for many years. Last took our grandchildren in 2018.

Great info. Thanks for posting.

Wish we were there

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[Abacist]

The rich and famous come to lie off the beach in their super yachts

The little train has just deposited a load of new arrivals at the beach.

 

[Abacist]

St Tropez has two market days per week at the Place des Lices. We went yesterday on Saturday.

 

[EuroTrotters]

The local clientele at the Spar shop!

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There was Someone staying at a static on la marina in 2017 with a super car.

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[EuroTrotters]

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I know someone from Jersey with a multi million pound motorboat (yacht) there. Every pound is a prisoner though , or euros st the moment .

 

[walburga]

It doesn't seem so long ago when it was 6.5 E/n, and the guardien was Laurant (not sure of the spelling). Remember when he retired, most of the brits there had a bit of a leaving do for him, we didn't need really need an excuse to get the vino flowing! It was our go to aire for many years, we'd usually arrive early to mid September, and still be there into October, when Laurant made it 3 nights pay for two, to keep the campers there. Lots of brits, germans, dutch, and met most of them year after year. Very happy times.
Allen

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[Abacist]

 

[suavecarve]

Phew.

I missed a heart attack on my wallet . I need to thank Le Mistral for putting us off.


Looks stunning though and when I win the premium bonds I might risk a night, or cycle in from le Plan de la tour. Great photos.

 

[jongood]

Its a nice easy place to stay in that area but its a shame they don't sort the weed on the beach out.

 

[Abacist]

We took the free bus to Ramatuelle and on the way went via another beach at L’Escalet around the headland from the lighthouse which looked nice.

 

[Abacist]

The free shuttle bus that goes from the beach, via the Spar, the other beach and villages up to the hilltop village of Ramatuelle with a Sunday morning market, mostly clothes, jewellery, pottery, linens, shoes, honey and Nick nacks but some food stalls.

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[Abacist]

To the left of the roof is Pampelonne beach, in the centre the lighthouse (Phare) and to the right the other beach. A diagram of the vista also shown.

 

[Abacist]

Ramatuelle village

 

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[Abacist]

Not seen Paella with pasta before!

 

[Abacist]

A nice old RMB on site today and an Italian reg’d lump with slide-outs with a black Ferrari under the awning as their run around!

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[Abacist]

There has been an exodus today as the weather has changed with a heavy downpour. Quite a few spaces now available.

 

[Abacist]

We are now on the long trek back up. Yesterday we drove from Pampelonne to Le Grau-du-Roi which had a nice looking new site but it was full and have back tracked to a fish farm near Aigues Mortes which has a huge Aire with about 70 places. We got the last one with compulsory electric for just over €18. On the way we stopped off at a lay-by for lunch and realised that the Paul Ricard racing circuit was right behind us and we could hear the racing going on but it was just a practice weekend for GT cars at €750 a pop!

 

[Abacist]

Parting shot across to Sainte Maxime

 

[Abacist]

Along the road to the Camargue.

 

[Abacist]

The aire at the fish farm last night near Aigues Mortes

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[Abacist]

 

[Abacist]

France is generally littered with dog turds - nobody ever seems to bagit and bin it but this site had lots of these signs which I had not seen before. You can’t stop a dog who needs to go but you can pick it up!

 

[Abacist]

We travelled up through the Cevenne today to join the A75 beyond Milau and missing lots of roadworks. Here are a few shots along the way. You get plenty of exercise on the steering wheel on this route which is slow, hilly and very bendy.