I've been pretty lucky to spend the whole last week at Corsica where I was accompanying my significant other to the conference. Frankly, I’m kind of jealous that most of the conferences are held in extremely cool places that you visit for free as the University you work for covers all the expenses. I wish I had more aspiration towards academic career.
We’ve stayed a few kilometers away from Cargèse – a small sunny village with two lovely churches, lots of palms and amazing sunsets over the turquoise water. Oh, and of course the wine and the seafood is fantastic.
Corsica is a fantastic
holiday destination for sure, but there’s one huge issue - the flight costs are hilariously high! I’ve been bitching already a
couple of times about EassyJet – a so-called low-cost company, sold one-way
tickets from Lyon to Ajaccio for 256 euro (without baggage!) when I tried to
buy them a month and a half in advance.
There’s a limited amount of airlines flying to Ajaccio:
Low-cost:
Transavia – from/to Amsterdam
EasyJet – from/to Basel, Geneva, Lyon, Paris and London
Jetairfly – from/to Brussels.
Full price:
Air France – from/to Paris, Nice, Marceille and a number of other French cities with air hubs.
Air Corsica – from/to Paris, Nice, Lyon, Toulon and Rome.
The cheapest rates I’ve
found were offered by Air Corsica (97
euro from Lyon to Ajaccio). As for return tickets…well be ready to pay twice more to get out of the island or seek
for other options.
I’ve decided to take a ferry from Ajaccio to Nice and it cost
me just 26 euro. No, EasyJet, I won’t
pay such a hilarious price for your tickets J
Yes, the trip took 6 hours, but traveling by ferry in France is pretty cool and sleeping on the upper deck under the sun reminded me of my travel to the Togean Islands last summer.
A beach for me on my own to enjoy
My new friend Mr Donkey
and Mr. Happy Cactus
The local specie of cactus grows everywhere around the island
Cargèse
Two churches placed on the opposite hills and facing one another
The Sea of Green
Amazing Sunsets