Category: 2024 Corsica
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Days 14&15: 21st&22nd Sep 2024 – Cargèse -> Berlin
Compared to the last two days the coming two days will be a bit more challenging and will definitely not have any cocktail pictures and consumption. We left our beach airbnb in Cargèse after a last swim in the Mediterranean…
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Days 12&13: 19th&20th Sep 2024 – Cargèse
We can do chill as well. We looked into each other’s eyes and wondered, how do these people do it, staying the whole vacation at the beach, doing nothing else? (And not ruin their marriage). So, scientifically minded as we…
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Days 10&11: 17th&18th Sep 2024 – Ghisoni -> Cargèse
Day 10 Today is moving day and good moving days have bad weather to make the goodbye easier. The morning sky was cloudy and after our ritual breakfast with croissants, fresh bread and Corsican honey we packed up and crossed…
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Day 9: 16th Sep 2024 – Manganello Valley
Corsica is the perfect hiking destination compromise for Chris and me. Chris loves forests and streams, I definitely like streams with waterfalls and pools a lot. We are also both fans of alpine meadows and I like rocks, Chris tolerates…
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Day 8: 15th Sep 2024 – Refuge de Prati
Hey everyone, it’s Chris this time, writing a guest blog today! Our hike today was the longest (22000 steps) and highest (700 altitude meters) so far. Learning from our experience with the snow 2 days ago, we headed out with…
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Day 7: 14th Sep 2024 – Ghisonaccia / Étang d’Urbino
Another early morning to spend some more time with the Corsican Nuthatch. When Chris asked me why I get up early to see a bird that I had just seen two days ago, I recognized again what a great pastime…
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Day 6: 13th Sept 2024 – Lac de Bastani
Above is a Corsican chestnut. What you might not know is that it advanced Corsican physical and psychological sciences significantly. By measuring the time it takes a chestnut to fall from a stool to the ground (physics), you can accurately…
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Day 1 to 5: 8th to 12th Sep 2024 – Berlin -> Ghisoni
For whoever is interested, I will do some irregular summary blog posts on rainy or otherwise uneventful days from our Corsica vacation and here we go. There will be references to “Asterix on Corsica” (marked as such with an *…