A low cost tour of Corsica island, France

Great beaches, charming villages, spectacular mountains and a lot of virgin nature and wild, that offers this wonderful island that we met by chance. Unfortunately only 5 days to get you, however, able to account for the many beauties of this fantastic island.

 

Florence - Livorno - Bastia - Saint Florent - Nonza - Saint Florent

Start by saying that the idea of ??spending a holiday in Corsica No I have never crossed our minds. in fact, my plans were for July to Milan - Faro (Portugal) by plane and then climb up to Porto (along the coast by train, stopping wherever possible) and back to london by plane (one week).
Unfortunately for small unexpected lack cash at the time of booking I had to give to portugal, and thanks to the maniacs who have to travel sites I found a ticket 55 euros return two more drive from Livorno to Bastia so begins to discover the web what is interesting in Corsica. . believe me after opening the first page I knew immediately that Corsica is a paradise on earth. . I spoke with my girlfriend and I went to the barbaric agency to book the ship.
I'm not a great expert on camp, however, the year I first proposed the idea of ??camping and my girlfriend stayed 5 days in the north of Sardinia, and I can not deny that a little 'I love this form of travel and car tent. So I munisco everything you need, or at least what I was missing the year before, and finally arrives on July 17 ... the machchina and overloaded, and it's off to Florence dv hosting my sister the next morning we saw ch the ship from Livorno and wanted to avoid the usual risks of snarled traffic on bologna florence.
Wake up at 6 and 7. 15 we are already at the port, the trip from Livorno lasts 4 hours or so, the fact is that at 13. 00 ... frankly, we're already in Bastia was just like being the summer of going to the beach so we run away from the center of Bastia and go a little further north, where we find in Saint Florent been camping for 30 euros per day 2 people. Pitch your tent in the race to the black beach of Nonza (of course I had already prepared an itinerary that we have only seen the first 5 days of vacation poor) even more to the north of Saint Florent (good half an hour).
What about the 17 ... were completely black and the beach with clear water was starting to evacuate until this paradise has become our own and of course we enjoyed it there until sunset.
We arrive at the campsite around 21. . shower and dinner (cooked by us) and then we go out once in the center of Saint Florent is a small town all concentrated around the harbor, many restaurants and cafes of the waterfront with a beautiful place and full of street artists and craftsmen who proposed the most absurd creations made from all kinds of objects. We make a complete revolution of the small town and then stop at a bar on the main road to sample local wines and fabulous beer very good''Stone''that I can put some of the best beers I've ever tasted. To be missed. Just before we return to camp 2.

Saint Florent - Lodo - Saleccia - Saint Florent - Calvi - Saint Florent

Wake up at 8.30 this morning because it promises to be very tiring as we reach the beautiful beaches of Lodo and Saleccia (there is a way for normal cars from Saint Florent, or you go spending a lot of jeeps with a shuttle or take the ferry from Saint Florent with less than 10 euros, and then award up to an hour x Saleccia walk between the nature run). Take the ferry from Saint Florent at 9.30 and at 10.10 we ... of course we commend to opt immediately for Saleccia saw that you had to do is walk, thinking that after we were on the beach of the award with a little 'more relaxing as the boat's Always back off again from there.
The walk promises to be very hard because it's hot but the peculiarity of the road ... it makes it light equipped with two sticks as good shepherds (seen on the streets you can meet cows and oxen in the wild 'nn penso'perché had no sign) and walk, walk and walk x over an hour when suddenly we seem to be out of the jungle and arrived on a beach in the Caribbean ... a show ... clear water, few people on the beach and even the occasional puppy (puppy? haha ??the cow the lowest was 2 meters high), and here you make serious consideration k this place is and will remain just as a mother''did''(in fact, the courses that keep us well to keep their land from virgin and supertechnology tourism sardinia dv sn rampant as the few beaches in the tourist places, nature reigns here).
A couple of hours on the beach and back to award tackles the long way of going much more difficult since the sn 12.30 punta.Arrivati ??perfect time to relax we commend a couple of hours and we put ourselves on the boat for 15 Saint Florent.Campeggio shower and you start to Calvi (northwest at about 2 hour drive .. Saint Florent 20 km after the street we see a girl with dreadlocks who was hitchhiking a large suitcase, a backpack and a guitar .. I am in a sn the first moment I saw that went straight to the car trunk and back seat chock-full of stuff all messed up but then my girlfriend started to insist on giving him a ride and of course I thought twice nn what to do and charge inversion that girl.
Mariel pleasure are, are of Marseille, is a singer of reggae music and sound tonight I go bald in a room ... I could not give him a lift as it did the same street, there were more than 50 km from there and I knew that did not pass services public does not exist for me ... I've done so many times .. so I put a hitch anywhere affixed the little car and find a way to let Mariel and her giant suitcases.
We share and after about 20 min of the road, after having met quite well, suggests that we drink a beer in a place that knew her and I can tell you that when we went away from this place I said a thousand times that the bar was more particularly in which I had never been .. and the fact that this particular bar, but nn was simplicity itself whereas up to two years before had given up an observation point (located on a promontory in a bend in the road, and if you enter the There is a terrace bar that never can you expect to be there where you can see the valley, the sea and the mountains that we were going through, a view absurd) restored by Martin (the owner with whom I exchanged a few words to know the history of his bar seen that made me run out of words) a boy of 25 years of course very proud of his brilliant and spectacular idea.
We leave at 19.00 to Calvi and we are in the center, leaving Mariel a friend and begin to explore this beautiful seaside town with narrow streets full of local shops and restaurants, and a castle in the upper part of the city you can visit and I can assure you that it's worth it ... we have dinner here of course and then look a little 'show of Mariel (the bar in the center handled more) since they are 22.30, we have almost 2 hours to return to the campsite makkina Saint Florent and the' must wake up early tomorrow. Of course, no time to get in the tent already slept.

Saint Florent - Corte - Restonica - Portovecchio - Bonifacio

If yesterday was very stressful but great one today ... it will be even at 7 d piu.Sveglia, dismantle the tent, load the car Hoping to find a place in it for us and the target Court .. (Court and the former capital of Corsica is located in the heart of the mountains and is about an hour or more from Slightly Florante saint). On the way we pass through many small villages and never get out Because of problems of time and we are at 10 Court ... what about the town and very beautiful, sloping Almost all chock full of delis and really .. ok we go to Court in an hour and a half, but the beauty of the surrounding area are qst .. Because the Court and is in the national park Restonica, where of course we go.
Here we are right in the mountains, and to think That Just 40 km there sn Caribbean beaches, the beauty of this is more and more corsica.Salendo Towards the mountain to a road Surrounded by incredible scenery (great forests and a river full of small heaps of water and waterfalls That Seemed to many swimming pools, and of course the brave ones who Were there Were bathing in the icy waters) at some point begin to Understand That in a Few hundred meters will end this little street, I see Because We many people leave makkina and walk, but I stubbornly continued to be good when i do go up to the last car to park Almost workers higher up (thankfully).
Take a little 'of food (wonderful baguettes stuffed with delicious cheeses and meats races courses self) backpack and begins the climb (the goal is to reach the lake only by Melo That Lies Between the mountain peaks around 2 hours of walking directions According to the , Because We have to be for the evening to Bonifacio in the south to more than 1 hour's drive from the Court), the first ten minutes of walking on the paved road where They still are there Any parked car, then c 'is a bar all in stone (or Rather the home of a pastor converted into a bar really vis'to Them Seemed to Be a guest and not by someone in a public place) That acts as a check point 'and' does not pass this That Is not typical of the place as well as tourists, of course (No There Is No kind of news, all in wood or stone and many animals like sheep, goats and chickens running around You Beautiful) ... Remember That I asked at the bar can go to the bathroom and he made me with a smile tactical Realize Them Because You're No bathrooms there Surrounded by nature and I can not deny That moment I thought I did very much a question of arriving naive . For you can choose from multiple paths, we arrive at the lake apple in Almost 2 hours, the climb was not apologetic and much less dangerous, However, Worthy of Being Called climbing, there Seemed to be really in heaven (is inexplicable beauty of this place, imagine a pond Between the top of a mountain-type type lavanella the mouth of a volcano), A Few shots, a snack to regain energy and we leave for the valley .. we come to the car about six .... Oh I forgot, for the whole day I had the desire to swim in small pools and small falls in the river down the valley as I saw so many people do this even if the water was freezing as I said before, the crazy thing is That I took courage in the Only Time of Day When The Sun disappeared, and to give space to some nasty drop of rain .. Simply Because We Were leaving, so I thought it was a must, I know I jumped in the water and I can describe it sn-as-a mix of pain and pleasure, but a really nice experience.
Once at the car a little restored, another snack, and of course it's off to the south of Corsica, arriving on the east coast in half an hour and then another hour until Boniface poor (mostly for small queues That Are Made through the many coastal villages, we find a campsite Between Porto Vecchio and Bonifacio ('U Stabiacciu camping' at 2 km from Porto Vecchio and Bonifacio approximately 18 km) to 30 euros more, we prepare a nice dinner and Rearranged.
In the evening we take a quiet stroll in the port of Bonifacio and Porto Vecchio to (20 km away) and half a lullaby.

Portovecchio - Bonifacio

Wake up at 8, breakfast good and plentiful and carefully salted away to the Caribbean beaches of southern Corsica.Fino at eleven we see first a couple of beaches where nn remember the name and then the Bay of Santa Giulia, but unfortunately we can not stop a lot to to see more things possible (about 1 hour to the beach). So we head in the center of Bonifacio to take a scenic boat and avoid the sun at peak times of the day was hot as k ...
The boat along the beautiful, high, special and who has + + and so forth that the Straits of Bonifacio sn Heritage Site, it forwards the beautiful caves (in one there is a window looking up cn the form of Corsica, which makes the absurd and spectacular cave) and a guide through the story of all the wonderful things that our eyes can see.
At about 14:00 we descend from the boat (but unfortunately we have avoided becoming nn two shrimp because the day and so excessively hot) and a couple of hours we turn to the charming Bonifacio from the port and going up to the old part of town that type seems to be built on a big cliff to 'the sea' indescribable. Visited decent Bonifacio we head towards the old port (the campsite, 1 km from the old port) via the two most beautiful beaches in the south (and palombaggia rondinara) that we enjoyed until sunset .. This is the last night, tomorrow we start so we finally let the debauchery, we dine in a restaurant in the heart of the old port (the pergola ... very good), eat fish with wine white (No I know what we drank but I just know that when we got up from the table after drinking 1 bottle of 0.75 we were drunk but not upset), do a lap to drink a couple of cockteil in two of the many bars in the square in the old port (Old Harbour and the city's most chic and expensive of Corsica) and then off to the discotheque Night Street which is said to be among the largest in Europe as salt esterne.La disco is really very beautiful and there is also beautiful people but the bar for our pockets is really inaccessible, all over 10 euros to speak. We stay up at 3.00 to dance but then fatigue leads us to the camp, which fortunately is only one km away and I want to return to Italy the next day with all points of the license (the law here is less severe than that us).

Portovecchio - Bastia - Livorno

The departure is scheduled for 14:00 Livorno from the port of Bastia, Porto Vecchio to Bastia takes a couple of hours then remove from the tent and prepare mentally to leave this beautiful place we leave the camp to 10.oo, we will advance k as the ship departs at 14.00 but of course we do crazy queues used more than four hours, but it went well all things considered equal to that seen in Bastia even half an hour we entered into a large shopping center very quickly to buy gifts and local products of Corsica, and I would very much cheaper than the prices of all shops that are in various tourist towns we visited.
We arrive in Livorno at about 18.30 for the start straight for home and end here, but our short vacation in the fascinating and beautiful Caribbean beaches and stunning mountains of this island, fortunately still wild at the right point.