Corsica’s capital, Ajaccio is a really pleasant place to spend a few days. Good restaurants, plenty of old town to explore, a buzzy food market filled with good snack-sized local foods to graze through, and…
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Corsica is famed for mountain hiking. The 180km GR20 which runs diagonally north-south through the island’s mountainous spine takes an average of 16 days to complete and has a reputation as one of the longest…
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We left Marseille on the night ferry to Bastia in Corsica. As the city receded into the distance, the sea was like glass in the rosy twilight. As France’s gateway port to its colonial holdings…
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Just a quick post on Marseille’s funkiest neighbourhood. As mentioned in our last post, Le Panier means ‘the Basket’, a nickname referring to the shape of the steep, narrow streets and tall buildings, said to…
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Not so long ago, Marseille had a reputation as dirty, poor and dangerous. But thanks to a decade-long economic development plan and urban renewal and infrastructure projects in the 2000s and 2010s, much has changed,…
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