Corsica and its beauty

After celebrating Mayumi's baptism , that night of the same day we boarded at 9:30 PM heading off to Corsica arriving the next day at 6:30 AM. Each year we spend summer holidays in the mountain to escape from the polluted, noisy, stressing, and congested city of Marseille. Corsica is an island and region of France and is the 4th largest island in Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily, Sardinia which is 7-mile (11-km) a short strait from Bonifacio 56 miles (90 km) from northwestern Italy, and Cyprus ) . It is also known as "L'île de Beauté" (Island of Beauty) because of its enchanting mountainous green environment, the wildlife animals, rocky cliffs, pure and crystal clear lakes and rivers, mutli colored sea, white fine beaches, the Corsican typical houses and gastronomy. Inhabitants of Corsica are mostly from Marseilles and they consider it as their second home.

Arriving early in the morning at the port of Propriano I didn't expect that travelling from there would be strenuously hard (it was our first time normally we take Port of Bastia). Some of you are aware that I have a transportation problem of any sorts. Same old banana, but this time it was not a catastropic experience for me. Unfortunately, my poor little girl suffered a lot from this trip ! I'll spare you the disgusting details. It was like following the trail of a big roller coaster!

Being in the village of 69 permanent residents, with a surface of 22 km ² and 894 meters of altitude on a surface of 2.379 hectares (either 2,9 hab/km ²) are just perfect to find fresher air and tranquility. Our first week was consecrated from cleaning the house itself and its sorroundings, to paint and treat the wooden windows and doors with special products for maintenance, to construct a bench made of stone just under the figue tree, to spend our time together as family going at the beach and river and discussing with the villagers is always included in our lists.

The village where family house is located

I took a picture from the old room of frenchhubby of this bee hives with manufactured honey already ! We let this area close for a week because they could be dangerous for the kids. We asked help from Antoine who is an apiculteur (beekeeper) at the same time has a miellerie (production and sells honey).

We tried really hard to regain the beehives but there was no other way to recuperate it so we ended up exterminating them. I know it was unfortunate but I prefer the safety of my kids !

I will leave you with the first part of our Corsica expedition and will tell you more of my exciting stories with our invited friends !

TO BE CONTINUED.........