|   Dwight Peck's personal website Corsica 
in the Off Season, 2007 
 Corsica, 
the grudgingly-French island off the coast of Italy. We're 
catching the off-season rates, late November and early December 2007. You 
may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a 
good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught 
up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go. 
  Sights 
    to be seen here: We 
    departed the Marseille ferry at Propriano and drove to the southern tip of the 
    island to visit Bonifacio, then drove northward 
    up the east coast and turned at Aléria up into the mountainous interior, 
    to Corte for some days. From Corte, historic 
    capital of Corsica, we hiked up to the Lac de Melo at the head of the Restonica valley and up the Forêt 
      Domaniale de Vizzavona, and drove up to see the free-range pigs near 
    the Col de Verghio. Thence down to Bastia on the northeastern coast, near the Cap Corse, and a day of viewing the local 
    sights, then a coastal hike out to the Pointe d'Agnello on the "Sentier des Douaniers" hiking route and another along the coast 
    of the Désert des Agriates, from St Florent out to the Punta 
      Mortella and back. And finally a drive back to the south to get the 
    ferry from Porto Vecchio. |  |  |  | The 
Corsican moor-flag as the ferry enters Propriano port | The 
bastion at Bonifacio | 
 
 |  |  |  | The 
citadel atop Corte | The 
Pasquale Paoli square in the Corte upper town | 
 
 Hike 
to Lac de Melo, valley of Restonica  
 |  |  |  | Old 
Genoese watchtower at the Col de Vizzavona | Hike 
in the Forêt Domaniale de Vizzavona | 
 
 |  |  |  | The 
Old Port of Bastia | The 
Old Port and the New Ferries | 
 
 Hike 
along the Sentier des Douaniers to Pointe d'Agnello  Hike 
around the Désert des Agriates to the Tour Mortella  Porto 
Vecchio and ferry home  
 Base 
map: http://z.about.com/d/goeurope/1/0/g/Y/corsica-transportation.gif         
 
 
  Feedback and suggestions are welcome if positive, resented if negative,  All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 26 December 2007, revised 12 June 2012.
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