On to Toulon

Not my favorite city, Toulon is more a working city with a strong French Navy presence. The port is at the foot of the town, but quite old and out of date. I was surprised when the capitanari remembered me from being there almost two years before. They remembered the girls traveling with me and asked how things had been going. We spent four days there picking up a couple more passengers, Jody, a friend of a friend that chartered the boat for the next 10 days and John who spent time with me when I was in Barcelona. John’s ability to speak French quite fluently endeared him to the crew immediately. We did a big stocking up at Carrefour to last us for a couple of weeks and then set sail for the golden sun of San Tropez.