Corsica Road Trip part 7

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I’m now on day 9 of my Corsica Road Trip, and Part 7 of this blog is going to cover days 9 and 10. It’s time to start heading north up the east coast of Corsica. The south is covered with beautiful and quite busy glorious beaches. This is not my style of beach as you may have noticed.

Porto-Novo

I still wanted to take in some of the beautiful beaches on the south coast of Corsica. So I started by heading to Sperone point. In fact I was disappointed. It’s a ferry port, on a tiny scale, for the nearby islands. So I set about defining a list of candidate beaches but they all seem to have a common theme, beautiful, busy and hard to park. Of course here in the south there are paid car parks to make it easier but they often still leave you with 1-2km to walk to the beach. I chose a different tack. I drove towards Plage de Porto-Novo. This was described as quiet, beautiful with no cafes etc etc. Sounds great, however it’s a 3km walk from the road. And there’s no car park. I was delighted – it could be my best beach ever. It is SO close to Santa Giulia too. In the end I spent plenty of time here and then bit the bullet to visit one of the “real” ones – the beach at Palombaggia. Which like all the others was busy, nice and expensive.

Porto-Vecchio

I’m sleeping in Porto-Vecchio tonight. With its big natural bay there are boats everywhere. It has a huge citadel with a different look and feel to the others I have visited. It’s not a very photogenic town. It’s split on 2 levels with the Upper town centred around the citadel and the lower town with its port. A free bus runs around the town all day and I recommend it. I preferred the atmosphere of the upper town.

Piscines Naturelles De Cavu

After a good night’s sleep, the main tasks today are driving to Corte and finding nice things to visit on the way. I have picked the Piscines on Cavu to start the day, before it gets too hot. The idea is you take the bus, walk up the road or, as I did walk up the river bed to some natural pools. Walking up the river started easy with little yellow marks to indicate the path but they soon disappeared. So everyone doing this walk is basically making it up as they go along. It is a very popular place, lots of car parks (paid), and other activities for families. Definitely did some “on all fours” hiking again. The final picture gives you an idea of how busy it was out of season and I think my impression was that it was busier than that but I have a habit of cutting people out of the image when I take a photo.

I have to say it was an exceptional day out. Well worth it and the number of photos testifies to the beauty of the place.

Tarco

I know I should be swimming in the rivers, but I had my camera and I wasn’t brave enough to leave that. So I continued my journey which took me back to the coast. I stopped at a random beach, with a small free car park, and didn’t regret it. There were fish everywhere. I also liked the flowers. Welcome to Tarco.