Hotel Restaurant de l'Incudine Zonza

... the morning was pleasantly warm. I was the only one on the sundeck so I was playing my iPod playlists over the sundecks speaker system. Every once in awhile the stewardess would come and check on me and on occasion I could hear someone laughing from the decks below.

The harbor is tucked into the back of a long bay behind the cliff-lined peninsula that Bonifacio is built ...

... local cats.

Have sampled the infamous sausisson (donkey salami)... yep not really a fan!

June 21 is the festival of music all around France, anyone can play, sing or set up a band in the evening, so walking the streets that night was pretty cool. Doesn't mean people are good tho, but most were!

... that cruised past, you could see them coming from miles away!! Harnesses were worn too just in case you decided to go for an unplanned night time swim.

Made it to land about 5.30pm on the 18th, dammit no swimming (well maybe a quick jump in) as there were jellies of a different conventional kind.

Temperature has been a mild 36 degrees...

... a shop where you could buy some product. We didn't because Ontario wine was better than this stuff. The third stop was a confectionary where they hand made nougat treats. The owner was very entertaining as he described how the bars were made. Then he demonstrated making their new Secrets of Bonaparte candy, which was nougat mixed with chocolate and pressed into molds in the shape of Napoleon's hat. I'm not making that up. At ...

... 50, where our B&B, Chatelet de Campo sat on a hill overlooking a valley. The area really reminds me of Malibu by Beth and Michael's house. We met Elizabeth, the owner, who is extremely nice, informative and talkative. She made us a reservation at a nearby restaurant where Ross had seafood pizza and I had salmon pasta with Rose wine. The next day, we had a great breakfast made by Elizabeth with orange juice, coffee, yogurt, fruit, homemade bread and a special Corsican cake ...

AJACCIO IS GORGEOUS!! The cliffs along the shoreline with the mountains in the background, the buildings, everything- GORGEOUS! Shame I had some inductions to go to and was kept quite busy so I wasn't able to take any pictures or get off the boat, but that will change next time. One word for this port- stunning!

... After I got back on route I had lunch and waited for the German guy to catch up. He took forever so I ploughed on alone. Along the mountain top I got on to the marked path that would take me all the way to the summit. But there was still very hard climbing to do, navigating round the giant size fingers that from a distance is just a raggered moutain top. Down a bit, then up a lot more, your think your close but there is ...

Day 182. Slack day; Trip to Refuge de Tighjettu 13/10/08 Sleep was difficult for reasons unknown. I got up at what I thought was 6am, but turned out to be 5am. Anyway, I still proceeded to have breakfast and get ready to decend Paglia Orba (2525m), the 3rd highest peak in Corsica. Using my torch I slowly followed the loose stoney path. But after an half an hour I decided I'd lost ...

... The last hour, officially rejoining the GR20 was hard. There appeared to be a direct and much faster route to the refuge, but no, this is the GR20 route round the moutain tops and the long route we must go. Pushing myself up a steep 200m accent on loose rocks with sore shoulders to the highest Refuge in Corsica, de Ciottulu (1991m). Sadly we could not get gas working. So instead of a Carb loading I ate sandwiches under sunset.

... mountains, very green, and a stream running through. From high up there (I think around 5,000 feet) you can see the sea below. After a short hike and a picnic we had a swim in one of the natural pools. We went to a great restaurant in this hotel right on the water last night we all think would be great for the wedding: www.ubenedettu.com We read all the nice things you wrote and we really appreciate it. We miss you. Rich and Anne-Claire