|
|||||||||||
NewsletterSeptember 2010 How I Spent My Summer VacationThis photo was taken south of Ajaccio from the Punta de la Parata. Punta de la Parata is the end of a peninsula in the Gulf of Ajaccio next to the Iles Sanguinaires (Bloodthirsty Islands). Photo is looking back towards Ajaccio. If a photo is worth a thousand words then this is my longest newsletter ever. As something different I thought I’d have a newsletter with photos and limited text. All photos are from my recent vacation on the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea. This is the Tour de la Parata on Punta de la Parata. One of the 80+ Genoese watchtowers built to protect Corsica. A simple but very effective system was devised, where if there was an invasion the nearest watchtower would build a fire. This would then start a chain reaction, as each tower was in eyesight of another. So in about an hour all towers would be warned of the attack. These are the Iles Sanguinaires (Bloodthirsty Islands). What looks like a tower on the far island is in fact a lighthouse. This is Corte in the center of Corsica. Corte was for a short time the capital on an independent Corsica. This building is in Corte. The markings on the wall are from bullets fired during the Corsican Revolution for independence that took place during the middle of the 18th century. This is Napoleon and his four brothers. There’s one hiding on the far corner. Napoleon was Corsican and born in Ajaccio. This is a larger than life statue of Napoleon in Ajaccio. Local rumor has it that this was once the home where Christopher Columbus was born. It is located in Calvi, in the north of Corsica. These cars are in Calvi and waiting to board a ferry. Believe it or not, all these cars and many more will board the ferry in less than an hour. The two photos above are in northern Corsica taken along the D 81 road between Calvi and Ajaccio. The D 81 has to be one of the narrowest and winding roads I’ve driven. But it was full of beautiful views like above. Follow @jeffsteiner |
|
||||||||||