Saint-Tropez... Is... scorching hot... "Alerte à la canicule pour les prochains jours"... "Le Var-matin"... headlined... Armed with an ice-cold Badoit... we ventured into the heat-wave outside... with trepidation... Walking hurriedly... through the lovely passageways dotted with shops... patisseries... and our regular newsagent... (where we bumped into the Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld while buying our magazines and newspapers)... along the short distance to our destination... the legendary...