I’m in a festive mood today and would like to share a different side of Corsica through this video of Alizée, who was born and raised in Ajaccio, Corsica.
The title of the song is “J’en ai Marre!” (I’m Fed Up in English). J’en ai Marre can also mean “I’ve Had it” or like my friend [...]

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The slide show features several of Corsica’s main attractions and contains a sample of Corsica’s polyphonic music, a mesmerizing sound described by English writer Dorothy Carrington as “…a song from the depths of the earth, from the dawn of time”.

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This is the first in a series of posts about the connections between the U.S. and Corsica.
Martello Towers get their name from Corsica’s Mortella tower in Saint-Florent, which during the Napoleonic Wars proved to be very hard to conquer.
Earlier this year I discovered a blog called Key West Diary written by “Conchscooter”, a resident of [...]

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Recently I came across the web site of Paul and Sheila, a couple who has camped in Sicily, Croatia, Greece and other European locations.
They are now getting ready to camp in Corsica and Sardinia this spring in their VW Auto-Sleeper Trooper.
Paul and Sheila’s site is all about traveling through Europe on a motorhome. There is also a [...]

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