The mistral had left behind several baking hot, calm days. We had meant to anchor in the appropriately named Plage d'Argent (silver), but it looked very full and so for a couple of days we found a nice spot of Plage de la Courtade. This is quite open, but even on a Saturday we found a good spot and got the anchor to stick pretty thoroughly.
This beach is just beside the village of Porquerolle (which also hosts an expensive marina: the anchorage is free). This is a very chic resort, with some expensive hotels, though also host to hordes of day trippers. It has some extremely expensive grocery shops. We spent ?'?20 on some fruit and cheese! Our main consolation is that that is the only money we spent in 10 days.