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...TROPEZ: When director Roger Vadim set the racy 1956 Brigitte Bardot movie Et Dieu Cr?a la Femme (And God Created Woman) in the coastal town of St.-Tropez, he helped transform the French fishing port into a magnet for the jet set. These days, just about everyone else is drawn to "St. Trop" (around 100,000 visitors swarm the town each day in high summer)?but not during the fall, when hotels like the 19th century Ch?teau de la Messardi?re offer palatial rooms at almost half the peak-season rate. You'll also enjoy crowd-free beaches, no-hassle dinner...
Truth be known, there have been two waves of Cavalli: the first in the early 1970s when a barefoot Brigitte Bardot was spotted in his designs in St.-Tropez, and the second in the late '90s when Cavalli was rediscovered by rock-'n'-roll stylists...
...twilight descends on the French Riviera. The 22-year-old technician from Chelmsford, England, and his girlfriend, Gillian Fell, 26, are aboard easyCruiseOne, a no-frills, budget liner on its maiden voyage from Nice, the start of a tour of the French and Italian coasts that stretches between St. Tropez and Portofino. "There's no way we could have gone on a cruise [before easyCruise]," says South. "This has opened barriers for people like us." Great; just as long as nobody expects luxury at low prices. Forget deck quoits, pink gins and white-jacketed stewards. The only extra on this...
...operator and a pizza-delivery service. Expect budget motor insurance this month, and a bare-bones hotel in west London starting in July. To hear Stelios - as everyone calls him - tell it, easyGroup is the little guy's champion. "This is not just about yuppies taking holidays in St. Tropez," says Stelios. "This is about single mums staying at home, ordering pizza and watching a dvd with her kids." Maybe. But is easyGroup really changing everyday lives? Would anyone choose to use all of the easy services? Seeking answers, I headed for Milton Keynes to spend several days in easyLand...
...Ever find yourself pondering such burning questions as how to hire a luxury helicopter ride from Marseilles to St. Tropez or which end-of-season Ibiza parties are still hot? If so, you require the services of an ?lite website called asmallworld.net?but the Stockholm-based service is by invitation only. If you know the right people, an e-mail arrives saying "Welcome to a SmallWorld," and you're ushered into a rarefied club with 21,000 members?including supermodel Naomi Campbell, mysterious New York City financier Jeffrey Epstein and a chunk of European aristocracy?who swap jet-set travel...