Le Padula
Travel Blogs from Algajola
The Birth Place of Napoleon.
... he could live in Corsica and we could buy a sail boat and sail to Sardinia if he had a few lessons! The man has either been drinking too much or is delusional! I very quickly informed him after the weather we have experienced I am not sailing anywhere with anyone particularly him! Well as we sail away from Corsica I will say goodnight and speak to you all again tomorrow after our day in Florence. PS we only have 2 metre seas tonight. Piece of ...
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
... 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
... 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 ...
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