Corsica?

		Friday, 28 September 07 - 08:33 AM (GMT -06:00) By Paul Stankey in Travel

Every summer I get the chance to go on vacation with my wife’s family, I know “get the chance” but wait, up until this past year we have been going to Nantucket, which is an amazingly beautiful island off the Cape in Massachusetts.

This year the house we normally rent was not available so we changed it up, we went to Corsica instead. We spent a week there with a 1-night stay in London on the front and back end.

I now, like many I had no idea really were it was. It is a very large island (about 180 miles long) just south of the French coast and just north of Sardinia in the Mediterranean.

We stayed in a town on the south east side of the island Porto Vecchio.

For lack of a better description the terrain is similar to northern California, it is pretty dry and scrubby (low brush and rugged trees).

There are 6000’ tall mountains in the interior that look like the Tetons in Wyoming,

beautiful fresh water streams

that lead out of them to the sea and vistas that seemed to go on forever.

Some of the rivers had stunning pools that offer great cliff jumping.

Apart from getting together with the family the biggest reason for the family vacation is relaxation on the beach. Of course it being an island there were plenty...

Some more crowded

than others

but all of them had their own special beauty. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate with us, most days were cloudy and cool but still, we were in Corsica!

We all felt like we did not get enough time to explore the island, there is a ton to do and see. We did spend some time exploring a couple of the towns the busiest and the most beautiful being Bonifacio.