It was so good to be away again and driving from Cheshire to Cap d'Agde was definitely away. I'd been here before and stayed in various of the small apartments on the village naturiste but this time decided to pitch a tent.
I was half way through my holiday and the days had begun to merge into one. Wake, lazy coffee, walk or cycle, 1664 bar for an hour's people watching, beach, chaotic campsite dinner, then back to the village to admire the sexy outfits. I marvelled at the commitment of some people to their chosen lifestyle.
But last night! Last night was different. So very different. I'd been out into town earlier and I returned to my tent, undressed and sat for a final glass of red before braving the heat of the tent.
"Excusez-moi." I looked up. She wore nothing but black sticky tape patterned seductively around her slim body. She was part of the French couple that had moved into one of the lodges opposite my pitch that morning.
"Oui," I said.
And then something in fast French which my distant O level standard couldn't cope with.
"Ah, you're English!" she teased.
We exchanged names. They were Evelyne and Bastien.
"Would you like to join us for a drink? We noticed you are alone. Their lodge had a decked patio and fewer mozzies and I happily agreed. Bastien poured us some very generous negronis and we settled.
"How do you find Cap?" Evelyne asked.
"When I first came here, I was knocked off my feet," I said. "All ages and shapes just going for it. It was a real tonic compared with the fairly conservative Cheshire town I am from."
"And now, do you still find it so boom boom?" A phrase I'd never heard before and it made me smile.
"Well I don't want to get used to it or take it for granted, but I am starting to see both good and bad."
"Ahh, you're developing taste!" she said. "Bastien, we have found a critic!"
"No, no, not so much bad...."
She cut me off..."It's OK. We find most of it too much these days. Many people now come to make online content and somehow make money from the rest of us. Promoting themselves or events they have back in their country. And the single men these days are here just for the beach circles. There used to be many more gentlemen."