Wow! I've been home for just over two months, barring the two week trip to Sea Isle City:)
It has been so enjoyable and well, comfortable being home. Which makes me realize that some of the discomfort being abroad is something I've loved! But I am truly happy to be around family, friends and fiancé. I don't think I experienced as much cultural shock coming home this time as I did moving back from Boulogne Sur Mer. But there were definitely still moments. The pace at restaurants,
The main reason I wanted to sneak on here one more time was to post some pictures from my last hoorah in France- a week in Corsica!!
It was just stunning.
And May, my experience tells me, is the best time to go to Corsica. There aren't really tourist yet so it's kind of empty in the best way. It was really something for my friend Jenna and I, to see the lack of Anglophones there. We really got to use all our French almost without interruption and we wondered what a non-French speaker would do.
So Jenna and I rented a car for next to nothing and drove our way across the island. It was a manual, so I did the driving and WOW that was a trip. The impossibly narrow roads climbing up and down the seaside cliffs and the turns... Let's just say that after a week driving there I had blisters on the one hand that had the steering wheel gripped tightly. (The other hand was of course constantly shifting gears, going up and down mountains and turning 180 degrees more often than I would have imagine possible.) The locals would whip around the corners not knowing what they'd meet, on roads barely wide enough for one car. This was a constant form of some sort of entertainment, if you could call it that.
So we landed in Ajaccio and spent the first day there.
We visited Napolean's childhood home, which was very pretty and I especially appreciated the painted walls.
Our first evening there I suggested a visit out to see the les îles Sanguinaires at sunset which did not disappoint.
So here is a taste of Ajaccio, qui j'aime.
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