Monthly Archives February 2014

Village heart to heart, in just a few lines

PERI :

Firstly, the fact that this village was built within megalithic surrounding walls, on the Quercitti plateau. When the Saracens arrived during the VIII century, the village moved to take refuge up in the hills and along the mountainside.

Secondly, there’s a wonderful restaurant up there, ‘Chez Seraphin’ – overlooking the mountains, where you will remember a gorgeous meal within homely, friendly surroundings (I vouch for that myself).

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After having travelled around Germany, Switzerland and Italy for a year, Boswell decided to go to the Mediterranean island of Corsica in the fall of 1765. The island was at the time the scene of sporadic skirmishes between occupational forces from Genoa and France on the one side and a Corsican independence movement led by General Paoli on the other. Boswell gained passage from Italy to Corsica on an English ship, and joined only by his man-servant travelled to the interior of the island and the stronghold of the rebel forces. Here he met and befriended the rebel general, and took extensive notes of his visit, before he left again for the European mainland. In 1768 Boswell published his account of the visit and of his meeting with Paoli, who had by then gone into exile in London and who...

Undoubtedly some of the finest and most attractive shepherd’s huts you can come across here on the island are those of Alzeta – seen from afar, with their red wooden shutters which just stand out in the landscape. Situated on the south of the GR20, passing by ruins at Cimoni and continuing to Palmente Pass (1657m), one must come back down to meet them at 1553m (and also under Lake Alzeta 1690m) – water being accessible to all, for deserved refreshment !

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(On your way to Cargèse, up in the town of Appietto, north-east of Ajaccio)