The island of Corsica is just south west of the mainland of France. We only stayed on the island for 5 days but wished we had planned for a longer stay. Now we know. Mountainous and surrounded by the Mediterranean sea, the island is a gorgeous place with scenic views on pretty much every turn.
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- Hello Corsica! Docking into Bastia
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- One of the only days it was cloudy. Came by this abandoned house on a mountain
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- an ok view (in town of Calvi) I guess…
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- Tourists taking a picture of a church
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- I decided that the chair in the church was more interesting
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- aqua door
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- Sail boat
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- crazy winding roads on cliff side “highways”
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- Tower in the city of Porto
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- Donkey!
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- Grapes
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- Cheese! in the Ajaccio market
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- sausages
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- More sausages
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- wine
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- one day I will own one of these
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- olives and lemons. Not sure i could eat a lemon like the locals do.
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- onion man
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- mickey?
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- This was a sunrise view from our hotel room in Sartène.
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- The same view at sunset. Best. Hotel. View. Ever.
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- Cute town of Sartène.
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- Bulangerie Tamburini
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- Crooked door
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- The gorgeous city of Bonifacio, perched on top of a cliff
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- crazy cliffs
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- lotsa steps. luckily for me, we didn’t climb any of them
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- view of Bonifacio from a boat
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- another view of Bonifacio from a boat.
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- yet another view
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- sick killer stealth like kazillion dollar yacht
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- motobike
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- you put wine in these
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- slush! or granité as the francais like to call it
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- dinner. so french of us.
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- City of Corte
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- Winding wall overlooking mountains
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- yet another awesome view from another B&B we stayed at near Corte
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- Mooooo!
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- This one really moo-ed at me
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- sniffing dog
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- one of the very few modern buildings I saw in Corsica
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- The town of Speloncato. A real bitch to get to… actually most little towns in Corsica are a bitch to get to.
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- this cow just stood there on the side of the road/cliff the whole time we stopped to take photos of the panorama views
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- town of Speloncato
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- lights
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- old Citroen
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- picture time
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- waves…
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- …that almost ate me!
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- sunrise on on the morning of our ferry back to the mainland in France
