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Taking It Slow in Corsica

A March 2000 trip to Ajaccio by paul c.

By the Mediterranean Photo - Ajaccio, France More Photos
Quote: It's magnificent, unpretentiously sitting on the shore. The cove is splendid, the colors bewildering.
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Taking It Slow in Corsica Best of IgoUgo

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Driving from one coast of Corsica to the other is magnificent. It is a very mountainous island. Looks and feels very Italian. In fact, the pilot on the flight gave the first greeting in what I thought was Italian and then translated it in French. They say he was speaking Corsican.

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By the Mediterranean Photo - Ajaccio, France
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What better way to unwind than to sit on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean with a plate of local cheese, local bread, fruit and Corsican wine, listening to Van Morrison on my Discman watching the sun set somewhere over distant America? What a wild world. I had forgotten that Corsica has its own fare share of Wildmen. When I was sitting on the plane crossing the northern Mediterranean, I glanced at a couple of headlines on the newspaper that a man was reading in front of me. The lead story of Corse-Matin was the execution by the state of a famed local bandit. I had forgotten about the local bandits. 'Do I really want to drive across this wild island?' I ask myself. In fact, there were a co...Read More

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Bastia, Corsica Photo - Ajaccio, France
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Corsica is a beautiful place, and I've included more photos to share on this page. If you've never been there, hopefully these photos will inspire you to go there someday.

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paul c.

paul c.
New York, New York

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