When we got to the buses we got on and then drove for about
an hour and a half before arriving at Saint Tropez! There were lots of boats
and lots of tourists. The guy who organizes the trips George took us up to the
citadel. It was pretty cool. I don't know any history on it but it was clear
from the rock and the way that the lookout was tiered that there is definitely
some history to it. Most people descended half way up to go see the cemetery
but I continued up further to see what was at the very top. There was. Sort of
tower thing on the side of the wall of the citadel at the top as well as an
amazing view. I got to talking with a group that was there and we took pictures
and stuff. We descended after that and went down to see the cemetery. We didn't
go in but it was pretty cool to see the grave sites. Similar to the graves in
Mexico, they are above ground and very ornate. I wonder because both Mexico and
France are mainly Catholic if that is a catholic thing to have graves like
that. I really liked how they had wreaths of ceramic flowers on a lot of the
graves. I thought that was a kind of cool idea because then the flowers don't
die and no one has to take care of them. I wonder why they are in a wreath
shape though.
After that we started heading back into the older part of
town. It was really pretty there and we got to pass the hotel de ville. I
didn't see any famous people but I did see lots of cool yachts. There were also
a lot of cool paintings that were done that artists were trying to sell.
Everything here was very expensive and the prices increase was enough that even
I could see. While we were walking through town Cassandra called me and wanted
to meet up. When she found us she stopped to use the atm so I stayed with her
and our group didn't notice so we ended up splitting off. We took our time
wandering through town and walked through the souvenir shops poking. We found a
good deal on post cards of ten for 2 Euros so I bought ten and a pack of cards.
Which reminds me that yesterday I bought a post card that has different places
in southern France and I want to TRY and see all of them before I leave?
I got an ice cream cone at a little ice cream shop that
makes their own ice cream. It was really good! After that we walked towards the
cathedral but it was closed when we got there so that was sad. We walked around
a lot and then eventually found our way back to the bus to leave to go to the
beach.
The bus ride there was veeerrry curvy. I felt really sick by
the time we finally stopped. I wonder if I can get motion sickness pills from
the pharmacy. Probably though I would think. I may have to look into it for
next time. We go off and they told us that we could either stay at the little
beach we got off at or go on a half hour walk to a different beach. Being not
so great feeling I decided to just stay where we were.
It was verrry gorgeous! The water was even clearer than the
last beach I went to. There were also a lot less people. After deciding I was
feeling better I went and joined some IAU girls in the water. We swam for a
while and the shore went out pretty far before I got deep. This was a much
sandier beach but there was a section of rock just past the shore before it
turned back to sand. We swam for a while and then I noticed my arm was like
kind of uncomfortable stinging feeling. I started wondering if there may be
jelly fish in the water but decided maybe it was just the salt of something and
I had a scratch that was causing it or something. About two minutes later one
of the girls noticed a little jellyfish with brown spots. Oh no. I definitely
did. The girls didn't believe me when I said yeah I think I got stung. I think
they thought I was being attentionish. It was uncomfortable but not to the
point of being super painful. I would say it was half the annoyance of a
stinging nettle. It wasn't painful really just like uncomfortable. Or maybe
like a mild shock from electricity. Kind of like the feeling after you get
shocked but a little worse. I got out after another ten minutes and went back
to my towel to eat something. After I got out I noticed I started to have some
red humps on my arm. That pretty much confirmed it. The stinging started to
feel worse so I did what you do for jelly fish stings.... Yep. I peed on it.
Which was definitely a weird experience but it for sure made it feel better
instantly and then it went away completely about ten minutes later. The
bathroom was really weird though and was basically just a hole in the ground
which made the whole process a bit easier.
Overall I am kind of shocked that I didn’t freak out and
that I really did that… There was a shower nearby that I definitely used
afterwards. But really like I’m here to have experiences right? Like… How many
people can say that they have done that? That’ll be one that will definitely
stay with me. After all that I went back to the beach and everyone was like
yeah good for you for actually being brave enough to do it. It was kind of
weird. But I was pleased that they weren’t like grossed out. But like it really
did start to feel like it was going to hurt like to a noticeable point soon.
But it was all good. I went back in the water because I was like eh well now
that that’s out of the way nothing worse can happen. And I was right thank
goodness.
So then I met two girls who are going to a different
university who were both from San Francisco. They were very nice and I swam
with them for probably a good hour talking. Then some of the girls started
taking a ton of like group shots so I played camera girl for them. They went
topless at one point to take like pictures of their backs holding their top
over the shoulder. I definitely would not have done that because there were
definitely boats out there… But I saw this cool rock by itself out in the cove
so I had Cassandra wait until I got out there and then had her take a picture
of me. It turned out alright. It was a bit difficult to get to with the waves
but it was not very deep so I just sort of swim/crawled out to it. The rocks
had slimy stuff but it was whatever. Then I swam back. There were some cool
silver fish with black stripes in the cove and one was actually probably 4
inches tall and as long as a ruler. So he was pretty big! The water was clear
enough that when the wave let up a bit you could see the bottom even if you
couldn’t touch bottom.
Most of the girls tanned the whole time, but I swam most of
the time. It was really fun and I was sad to have to leave. It was getting
close to time to leave so we dried off and went back to the road to get a drink
from the café carts. I bought a icee thing that was pretty good. They are
really popular in this area but I hadn’t tried them yet. I think they are not
as good as real icees, but they were refreshing all the same.
After that we got back on the bus… to drive more windy
roads. Roads here are VERY skinny so a lot of the time we have to break
repeatedly while we turn corners and they don’t do it very gently. Also we have
to stop a lot so that the other cars can move off the road so the bus can go
by. It was very curvy and again I felt sick… I also was tired so I was going to
try and sleep it off but that didn’t work either because I couldn’t fall asleep
because of feeling sick. That was a bit sad. But when we eventually got back on
the Auto route I started feeling better. My ear hurts still. I think Monday I
will ask to go to a doctor. I still haven’t gotten my insurance card…
When we got back I made plans with Cassandra to go to
dinner. I took a shower and such then skyped Thad for like 2 minutes before my
internet died and told him what happened with the jellyfish. He laughed really
hard. Then I went to meet Cassandra for dinner. While I was waiting I skyped
Megan because it was creepy waiting for her in the dark on a not super crowded
street by myself. Right before she got there though I got heckled by a group of
three guys so I decided to go wait by the fountain but then not 20 seconds
later Cassandra showed up. I said bye to Meg and then we went to go find food.
We ended up going to a restaurant because it said pizza and
salade for 10 euros so I was like DEAL! But then when we started looking at the
menu Cassandra was going to get spaghetti and I knew I would be jealous so I
changed my mind. I definitely should have not… Not that it was bad but whenever
they walked by with pizza it smelled reeeallly good. The pasta was fine but not
as good clearly plus I wanted some greenery in my life.
The service was very slow. I don’t know if they did that on
purpose but it too two hours from when we sat down to when we left for sme 11
minute pasta. It was not so good but eh. I also tried a citron Diabolo which is
like lemon soda with flavoring. I was stupid and got lemon. Oops. It was very
tart though. I liked it. After dinner I came home and was sad that the cool
game show I like on Saturdays was over. But then! There was a second one!!! It
is really the best show and they should bring it to the states. This one has
Tony Parker the basketball guy and Eva his wife who apparently isn’t his wife
anymore. But I don’t know who he is so that’s lame of me. But it is really a
good show.
I guess the best I can say for this day is I had a good time
in St. Tropez and definitely am experiencing some things!
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