Port Grimaud Postcard

It's not often that I post foreign postcards up here, but I do have a collection, mainly of places I've visited myself. Many of them are night shots as I seldom manage to see places by night - the last few trips we have done have been cruises and you have to be back onboard and are normally back at sea before it goes dark.

So I tend to buy photos that I couldn't have taken myself. In this case it's the French Riviera town of Port Grimaud, a town built in the 1960s with canals instead of roads so that every house would have somewhere to moor a boat.

This time I chose an aerial shot that shows the layout of the town far better than I could from ground level.

Many of the houses here are second homes and therefore it's a bit like most marinas, where the vast majority of boats remain stationery and the owners just visit now and then.