Drive from Cassano to Bastia airport (Googlemaps link) takes at least 1 hour 50 minutes.
14:15 Bastia AF4460 to Paris (Orly), arrive 15:50
20:40 Paris (CDG) to Berlin (Tegel), arrive 22:25
Category: Holiday
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Friday 21 Feb
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Thursday 20 Feb – Notre Dame de la Serra
Walk to the cemetery and back. Andy photographing us photographing him.
Corsican curiosity.
Notre dame de la Serra
Picnic under the church.
As the sun sets on our last full day on Corsica…
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Tuesday 18 Feb – Cassano Monte Zingu
Kite flying into the sun to confuse the mice.
Almond blossom
The Asphodel
People used them to make crosses in order to protect the harvest and with the dry leaves they filled mattresses. Its popular names is fiori di morti – “flower of the dead”. The official name of the variety found in Corsica is in fact Asphodelus ramosus.
When heated its bulbs explode like fireworks, on the feast day for Saint John the Baptist children hold them in the fire built in the village square and then knock them against stones to make them bang.
For centuries it was planted near tombs to nourish the dead. It also fed the living.
The asphodel is edible: its bulb can be made into a kind of bread. It lost its importance as food after the introduction of the potato in the 18th century. The asphodel became known as “the bread of the poor”. It continued to be appreciated for its medicinal properties in treating ailments such as indigestion, coughs, inflammations, ulcers, toothache, as well as tuberculosis…Source: https://www.terracorsa.info/aspho.html
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Monday 17 Feb – l’île rousse
Kim tangled with a Triffid.
This pair really sock it to them.
Have you heard the one about …
Look at the wild asparagus which Fiona & Andy collected – yum!
Played Keith Haring cards in the evening – Black Lady aka Hearts
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Sunday 16 Feb – Vallée du Fango
Another beautiful day.
Fango river
Having a little rest.
The world famous zebra stone.
Concert of Corsican songs
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Saturday 15 Feb – Plage de l’Arinella
The living room in the morning
The view from the balcony
Coffee at Spar
Swinging time on the beach
Biggles on the beach
Corsican February
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Friday 14 Feb – Montemaggiore
Cassano
Beautiful walk to Montemaggiore on Valentine’s day.
Eglise de Montegrosso
What is Fiona photographing?
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Thursday 13 Feb – Corte
Walk 20 with a picnic today and a nice blue February sky.
Peekaboo
Kim‘s Corsican Cone hat
That‘s Corte castle down there.
Stony steps keep you on your toes.
Mirror, mirror on the wall…
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Wednesday 12 Feb – Corte
Quick look at Ajaccio (pronounced Adjgaksio) after discovering that Napo-Rama is closed for the winter.
Window in Ajaccio.
Drive to Corte 1h 25 m
Well-aged entrance to the apartment.
Corte apartment https://www.booking.com
First impressions can be deceptive. Great apartment! Check out the wash-basin.
On the way up through the village.
View from the belvedere up to the old castle.
From one mountain goat to the next.
Small, free contemporary art museum in Corte https://www.frac.corsica
Gerhild shows solidarity with the Corsican women.
Kim is trying to understand the Corsican man.
The motto over our fireplace –
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Tuesday 11 Feb – Ajaccio, pointe de la parata
Walk 27 – Sentier des DouaniersThere was so much to enjoy on this walk, we only did half of it.
Shadow selfie
Our picnic spot
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Monday 10 Feb – Ajaccio
Last look around Piana
The house where we stayed.Bits of the village not yet done up.
Drive to Ajaccio 1.5 hAjaccio apartment https://www.booking.com €500 cash deposit required.
Evening walk along new EU-sponsored footpath (narrowing the road!).
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Sunday 9 Feb – Piana
Walk 13 – 7 km 3 h
The walk goes to the tower on the hill at the end.The link for the guys with a drone Youtube channel
Picnic looking down into Cala di Palu.
Corsican colours
Friar‘s Cowl
Corsican steps
Kim thinking lofty thoughts
The view from our balcony – Residence de la Tour Piana -
Saturday 8 Feb – Piana
The sun rose over the mountains at quarter past eight.
Calvi beachStock up at Spar Supermarket – Route de Calenzana, 20260 Calvi
Drive to Piana 2 h
Look who we bumped into on top of a hill!
This fellow wasn‘t very talkative.Les calanches de Piana porto korsika unesco
Résidence de la Tour, Piana https://www.booking.com
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Friday 7 Feb – Calvi
06:25 Berlin (Tegel) AF 1135 to Paris (CDG) arrive 08:15
The bus to Orly takes about 90 minutes.
15:55 Paris (Orly – Terminal 3) AF4468 to Calvi, arrive 16:25Hotel Calvi Marina https://www.hotel-mariana.com/en/ Hôtel Mariana, Avenue Santa Maria, 20260 CALVI
First impressions – Calvi airport is enjoyably tiny. Starlings deafening in the palm trees by the seafront. Fish & chips / salad in one of the few open restaurants for an expensive €70 (with 500 ml of Sicilian red). Snow on the mountain tops.
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Norway
11.05.2020 bis 22.06.2020
https://thomasdambo.com/works/forgotten-giants/
https://trollmap.com/#/@54.2891×12.0375z6.13
Uta recommended Lofoten
Norwegens Nationalfeiertag 15 Mai
https://www.nasjonaleturistveger.no/en/
Internationale Festival in Bergen from 20 May for 15 days program.
Mandaljazz 2020 20 -29 June – very southern tip of Norway.
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29 September Travel
260 km 3h 5 m von Kabishof nach München
Bahnfahrt
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28 September – Teddy comes for a walk
For our 2 favourite girls in Berlin.Music for this walk
Hey Teddy, do you want to come for a walk?
Which way, which way?
Wow, what’s that?
Apples! Just lying on the grass!
Found me, found me.
Where is Teddy?
Just my size and I love the colour.
Hey! I‘m hungry too.
Mmmm. Cheese roll.
What‘s that?
It’s very pretty.
Gerhild found me a necklace under a mushroom. Maybe it’s magic?
Peek a boo.
Bet you can‘t see me!
Huh. There‘s nothing under this mushroom.
This way home.
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27 September – Early start in Teis
Breakfast with some Kamut rolls.
Ancient Tyrolean fence-making craft.
What is Gerhild taking a picture of?
Vilnößtal, what else.
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26 September – Dusler Alm
On the way to Dusler Alm.
Just cast in bronze and sell for a fortune!
Why do we climb mountains?
A rare find – Boris Johnsonus Idioticus.
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25 September – 3 churches again
Nice clouds this morning.
How do you like Vilnößtal?.
Popped into St. Peter’s church for a quick peek, having listened to its bells every 15 minutes since we’ve been here, and vainly tried to read the clock in its tower.
Kim finished reading his first ever Stephen King novel. It‘s a bit strange with invented „horror“ creatures as the author can invent the rules as he goes along. Not exactly a Sherlock Holmes story where things have a logic to them.
Gerhild finished „The little shop on the corner“ and she liked it a lot – just the right thing for a holiday.
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24 September – Halsl the other way around
Two good to be true?
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23 September – Rainy reading day
Leisurely morning walk around St. Peter.
Hey, where are the mountains?
Hey, where’s the church?
Our books.
When the rain cleared.
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22 September – St Magdalena
Today was the day when the cows come home in St. Magdalena.
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21 September – Halslhütte
1860 m to start from the Halshütte carpark. What a glorious day!
Walk up through the magical woods.
There‘s something magic here. What can you see?
Fresh fish at about 1800 m on the Rungtscher Wiesen. Looks really delish that fish!
An unflutterable owl.
No idea what it is but it‘s interesting.
As one does, we discussed the art painted on a stone here with a passing couple and the woman said it reminded her of one of Tony Hillerman‘s stories about the Navajo tribal police. Having never heard of him, I will borrow one from the American library in Berlin.
Can you believe it, Gerhild ate this work of art and it was quite delicious too.
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20 September – Lazy day in St. Peter
Breakfast on the balcony.
Little constitutional walk around the village.
Shopping for some local goodies in Pizak.
Recipe for Vinschgauer bread (Gerhild‘s favourite)
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19 September – Teis
Teis is at the end of our valley, Villnößtal.
This small chapel is bizarrely surrounded by concrete trenches built during the 1st world war, with a bunker underneath.
The tiny chapel shows Mary with the 7 swords symbolising her 7 sorrows.
Our pocket sword comes in handy to harvest some nice parasol mushrooms and cut off the woody bits.
They shrink amazingly when cooked.
Gerhild used her stick to carry the bag full of mushrooms. Stock und Hut, steht ihr gut …
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18 September – Zanser Alm
St. Peter‘s while we had breakfast on the balcony today
Off to Zanser Alm today with a huge car park, but plenty of space for the visitors.
For Baron von Münchhausen fans there‘s even a cannonball to swing on.
The Geisler range
Time for a rest.
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17 September – 3 churches, Peter, Valentin & Jakob
Time follows its own rules in South Tyrol. This was when we started our walk today as shown on St. Peter‘s clocktower.
This plain little church in St. Valentin was started in 1090. (webpage)
So this toothy chap might be getting on for 1000 years old.
In 1945 Brazilian bombers just missed the church and the farmer‘s house next door, so the survivors expressed their thanks by setting up two (hopefully) empty bombshells in front of a small shrine.
And here‘s the third church, in St. Jakob.
