At Corte I could not upload pictures to my blog and at Bastia the Internet at the place I was staying at was broken so I am catching up now.
From Corte I rode to Ajaccio, the birthplace of Napolean Bonaparte, more for the ride than anything else and then back through Corte to Bastia, should have taken a different route coming back but anyway great ride through the mountains regardless.
Note: Corsica is an expensive place, prices are almost double that of Sardinia and much more expensive than the mainland
- Heading out of Corte
- 3 Bridges
- The only tunnel on the island
- Mountains
- Ajaccio
- Napolean’s street
- His house
- Him
- Pretty
- Corse menu
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- Bastia
- Lunch
- Corsica Beer
- Chocolate
Bastia, a port city, quite big and busy, not a bad place to wander around.
- trees
- Moby
- Place Saint-Nicolas
- Place Saint-Nicolas
- Cafe’s
- The Band
- Cafe’s
- Sunday markets
- Music
- Sunday markets
- Sunday markets
- Sunday markets
- Washing lines
I visited the museum here, very few English translations, the most interesting part was the archaeological ship salvage of a Wine transport ship from 20-40 AD and the videos. After that the Cathedral and a couple of churches squashed between buildings.
- Bastia Museum
- Trade
- Bastia
- Art
- Art
- Art
- Art
- Art
- The Port
- Archaeology
- Archaeology
- Archaeology
- Archaeology
- Archaeology
- Archaeology
- Archaeology
- Gold
- Dolia Carriers
- Read the text
- Read the text
- Read the text
- Read the text
- Wine storage
- Wine storage
- Big pots
- Big pots
- A couple
- Holy Cross Church
- Buildings supporting each other
- Gate
- The coast
- Tourist Train
- Bread and cheese
- Bastia Cathedral
- Bastia Cathedral
- Bastia Cathedral
- Bastia Cathedral
- Flags
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- Harbour
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- Immaculate Conception Church
- Immaculate Conception Church
- Candles
- The ceiling
- Immaculate Conception Church
- Immaculate Conception Church
- Immaculate Conception Church
- Follow the trail to ??
- Sunday evening crowd returning to the Mainland
Finally on my last day I rode around Cape Corse, the peninsula sticking out at the top of the island, the Eastern side has the beaches and the Western side has the cliffs and is very windy, I nearly got blown over the cliff a couple of times hahaha, scary ride. There was also a huge bush fire which went on all night and was visible from the ferry as I departed the island that evening.
- Inflatables
- Tower
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- The bike and the view
- Beach
- Something in the distance
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- Genoese Towers
- Genoese Towers
- Cap Corse
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- Island
- Clear water
- Island and Cruise ship
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- Lighthouse
- The west side
- Avenue
- Shortcut to the beach, straight ahead
- Twisting and turning
- Waves
- Waves
- The fire in its infancy
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- Road works 30 min delay
- Looking down
- Pouring concrete
- Building a wall
- Black beach
- Crazy
- Black beach
- Popular place
- Cemetary
- Traffic jam
- Narrow
- Temporary bridge
- One at a time
- 2 bikes
- Lone cloud
- The fire getting bigger
Hi Chris!
Loving all your blogs.
Corsica looks sooooo beautiful – your pics have made me decide I must add it to my bucket list of things to do/places to see.
Can’t wait to hear about it all.
Pleased the weather is looking great and holding for you, think we’re having the horrid stuff in the UK.
H xxx