...and tell anyone about it because -first will come the American tourists -then the tour buses competing with cars on the single lane death-taunting roads and Genoese bridges -followed by bats, locusts, scurvy, the Black Plague, malaise, chicken pox, polio, Jennifer Aniston, and IMAX! Just leave it alone.
I mean it. The whole island should go UNESCO.
The port of Calvi from the Citadel, built in the late 15th century by the Genoese
In the mean time, allow me to begin showing you what you are missing. Starting with the port town of Calvi, the alleged birthplace of Christopher Columbus.
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| Cathédrale St-Jean Baptiste |
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| Cathédrale St-Jean Baptiste |
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| Entrance to the Citadel |
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| Entrance to the Citadel |
My ferry from Nice was not nearly as difficult in the rain as I had expected. But, once we arrived at the port everyone scurried off the ship with their cars in a downpour. The seasonal/daily 2pm invasion of Calvi began. Most left for other villages. I wanted to stay for a couple of days and explore the area -especially the citadel. But the rain was offensive. I was beaten from 5-1/2 hours on the full-to-capacity ship, Sardinia Vera, and quickly checked into the Hotel Belvedere and fell asleep, face-first into bed.
When I awoke three hours later....the sky had opened up for me...and I felt that I was being personally invited to immerse my self again in this place where I know I could lose myself but never be lost.
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| Sunset from the Hotel Belvedere |
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| Sunset from the Hotel Belvedere |
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| Golfe de la Revellata |
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