Hotel Dominique Colonna
Travel Blogs from Corte
The Birth Place of Napoleon.
... were delivered in huge white bowls and were devoured greedily along with the accompanying bread, which we used to mop up the juice. More walking through little lane ways followed as we weaved our way back to the ship. The sun was warm and we arrived back to find body's everywhere adorning the deck, soaking up the sun after our preceding run of bad weather. As we sat on the deck watching all of the small craft sailing by Stuart ...
Calvi. Corsica
... boarded a little bus which took us up to the top where there was a church with a guardian protecting those below. Cemetery was interesting with families having to buy little houses to bury their dead as they are not allowed to bury them in the ground. On bus again to a little village which proved a bit annoying as we were there for over an hour and nothing to see or do. Returned and were too tired to sightsee in the village near the port which looked beautiful. Came home and ...
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 ...
2 days in Calvi 18/19 June 20212
... and came back to his cafe for lunch. Arrived in Calvi mid afternoon via the main road (had enough goat track for one day). Our hotel is an old Abbaye with beautiful gardens and huge rooms. We visited the town, the citadelle and had a nice diner near the Yacht Club. Had a look at a Spanish superyacht "the Alejandra" which ...
2 days in Porto
... fire and warn the next town of enemy presence. Some eighty towers around Corsica and every one would be warned within an hour.
Swim at the nearby beach
17th June; left at 9am for the marine and national park reserve of Scandola, visit of the fishing village of Girolata, only accessible by sea or goat track.
Back for another salad and a swim and at 6pm back on board for the Callanques du Piana.
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