There is a rustic, real life feel to the place - especially in late October when the busy tourist season has finished - it has its beauty but there is a sense of real life being lived not far from the shiny surface. Porto Vecchio where we stayed swells to huge numbers during the high season and has a beautiful old town high above the Port, which is also pretty, but a very ordinary centre commercial not far away as we discovered on our morning runs.
The kids were disappointed because the apartment where we stayed had an amazing pool but it was "closed" after the summer. Luckily though the weather was warm and we had 3 beautiful beach days where the temperatures were perfect and we would not have wanted it hotter. There was high excitement as we broke out the summer threads and hit the beach
We hit Plage de Palombaggia the first day and were amazed at how warm the water was.
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Bill and I did not take long to get into the local drop (Pietra) which was not bad.
Our favourite beach was Santa Giulia where the water was aqua blue and the kids loved the pedal boats which we hired both days, turning ourselves quite quickly into a ship of fools.
Zoe (la petite) continued with her love of croissants and requested them constantly :
Although we did branch out one night to get some "tart n meringue" as a throwback to Uncle Robbie. The boulangeries did not disappoint:
We mainly ate out for lunch and had dinner in our apartment. It has to be said that despite being told the Coriscan wine was very good, lacking any further direction, many of our purchases were epic fails, resulting in a lot of terrible wine being poured down the sink!!
Other than the beaches, we explored the amazing town of Bonifacio one day which is the southernmost tip of the island, perched on the precipice between the Med and the Thyrrhenian sea and is just as much italian as it is french. It has seen many battles from its Bastion walls given its strategic location. We went down and up the steps of the King of Aragon carved right into the side of the cliff, where the kids abused me for being paranoid about "health & safety" (which was marginal).
We also went up to the mountain village of Ospedale and did a walk in the hills from there - the centre of Corsica is very mountainous - we weren't very high but there are amazing tramps and bike rides which go from one coast to the other and everywhere in between. Zoe (aka "wild homes") started doggy howling as soon as we got into the bush and managed to attract 3 puppy friends who followed us on the whole walk and did not want to leave us, despite us trying to take them home several times. We spent a bit of time outlining the reasons why we couldn't take them home with us..
On the way back, we stopped for a drink and the kids walked home while we had a second aperol...
On the last day we drove around the west of the island taking in for the last time the light, the heat and the simplicity of the place, as well as a few photos:
We drove back to Ajaccio, the birthplace of Napoleon (Boney-Parts) which was a lovely town with a gorgeous beach right on its edge. We had a last lunch soaking up the heat knowing that it was probably our last for 2 months. Then it was a mad scramble to the airport which was touch and go due to the shemozzle of "le colis Bill Willis" which is another story.
Zoe says: I love Corisca because it is hot and we go to the beach a lot. The boulangerie is my favourite food shop. When we went walking we found 3 puppies, One was called "shy guy" one was called "Sica" and the other was called "Determined". One of them had fleas. They kept following us. Dad had to shoo them away and they nearly got run over!
Amelia says: Corsica was amazing and hot, I loved going to all the beaches because two times we got to hire a pedal boat and we went out to sea and swam off it. When Zoe was being a fake dog, she howled and some dogs came running to us.They were very adorable - we think they were beagles but we're not sure. I love Corsica.
Harvey says: Corsica was an amazing place it was full of barking, splashing, pedalling, travelling, tanning and much much more. I loved the Corsica lolly shop and the Corsican boat chips we ate at the beach. Our apartment was amazing too.My favourite beach was Santa Giulia it had lots of peddal boats. The view from our apartment was amazing too. Wish you were here! Here's some of my photos:
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