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Calvi. Corsica
Woke late and went down to brekky as usual. Weather so much better today than since we left. After brekky had time to put bathers on and head to the pool for an hour or so. Extremely hot so our tan should improve. Lovely fruit skewers served and big glasses of water. Back to get ready for our excursion into Calvi for 2.5 hours. Mix up with directions to wait for Calvi excursion but finally boarded tenderboat with great waves causing problems for us getting on. Finally got over to ...
One day visiting the centre - Corte
Left Calvi early morning and took another goat track to the village of San Antonino. Visit and coffee then back on the main road to Corte where we arrived for another nice lunchtime salad.
We visited the town and (another) citadelle and we got spoiled for diner by our host at U Passa Tempu (the Past Time). Free aperitive, testing of home made ...
2 days in Calvi 18/19 June 20212
... Nice charter if you can afford it...
19th June we were supposed to drive to Saint Florent and Bastia, we stopped for coffee at Ile Rousse and by then decided it was too late and headed for a beautiful beach (Ostriconi) below a cliff. Nice white sand and great snokeling. Home for shower, shopping and diner.
Tomorrow, Corte.
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2 days in Porto
Left Ajaccio in the morning; the GPS took us on a goat track rather than the main road. Met with the locals (cows and goats) on very windy roads large enough for one car...
Arrived in Porto for lunch, nice salads and icecreams. Booked 2 cruises for the next day, checked in our hotel (Belvedere), our room had a balcony with view on the Genoise tower built long time ago by the Maures. They were used to lit ...
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 ...