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Big-ugly (Day 239)
Biguglia was the closest small town from our campsite, and we spent a few hours there looking around the old place. I get the feeling it would have been much, much more beautiful on a day where the sun was shining, but unfortunately, all we had was rainy weather!!
Into Corsica, the unknown
... hard to find affordable nice accommodation where we wanted to base ourselves.. First stop Bastia, after a very long ferry ride of four hours, we sailed into Bastia. I must admit to feeling slightly disappointed, as it looked like just another Mediterranean town, that had slightly seen better days perhaps.
I was also feeling slightly unsure what to expect of the locals, as they were apparently very proud, and saw Corsica as a unique ...
One day visiting the centre - Corte
... goat cheese, plate of local smallgoods and leek beignets (leek scallops?), for main meal veal and broccu in a beautiful sauce, and veal tripesall cooked by the owner's wife. Desert was a chestnut flan like a creme brulée with chestnuts. we then tested (on the house) home made myrthe liqueur which seems to be blackcurrant. The host Alain, kept us ...
Corsican High Country...
... the early-evening temperature is already in the low teens after basking in ~25° on the coast. The mountain setting is surreal – and the small village is topped off by the ubiquitous Citadel glowing golden in the setting sun.
The next day Helen decides to have a ‘rest day’. I set out to explore the village to be followed by a long walk up ‘La Vallée du Tafignano’. The village is buzzing on this Sunday morning: the local firemen ...
Back to France: Bastia, Corsica
... disappointing and generally not a patch on our Italian culinary experience. I choose fish on two occasions: after all Bastia is seaside and the home of Corsican fishermen. In both instances at ‘recommended’ restaurants the fish is overcooked, and not particularly fresh. Are the French resting on their gastronomic laurels a little, we wonder?
On the second evening after a sultry day we are treated to a massive lightning ...
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