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Calvi Beach Holiday On The French Island - Corsica
By train thru Europe, via Florence to Livorno at the Italian seashore, covered quite a foreign terrain, & filled the soul with continual visual impressions and food for thoughts.
We entered Bastia by boat after a sleepless night in a cheap Italian hotel room-mating with myriads of cockroaches.
Driving across the Island from Bastia to Calvi brought out the right holiday feeling. The pleasing smell of lavender sneaked in through the open windows and welcomed us to this beautiful island.
For 3 weeks we stayed in a two-person tent in walking distance from the the coast. We lived primarily on flutes & raw vegetables, spend the days floating & sunbathing & dancing the nights away in Calvi.
We went back home a month later suntanned, slimmed & full of steam and inspiration.
Having experienced a vacation on the cheap makes it so much easier to understand the advantages of renting a Calvi villa for a family holiday. Many of the rental villas in Calvi has private pool & are very relaxed and tastefully furnished.
Did I mention the beaches? They are long, white, alluring and very clean. Furthermore the gentle wind makes even the hottest month bearable by the seaside, as long as you offer protection to your head from the constant sharp sun. A cotton hat, that you can soak in the sea regularly, keeps your head cooled off. There is much to be said for a Calvi Beach Holiday !
Calvi has no more than 6000 inhabitants. It is found on the North-West coast of the island - 59 km from Bastia. The town has ferry connections with the French mainland (Marseille, Nice, and Toulon) and luxurious yachts visit the harbor. Calvi is a charming old fishing town and fishing is still of some importance, even though tourism is now the big earner.
You will not be bored with Calvi. You can watch the world go by from a seaside pavement cafe, shop fashionable clothes in the old part of the town, eat delicious dinners at the diverse restaurants or visit the piano bar in the old as time Citadel for live music.
Water sport is not hard to find in the region and in Corsica as a whole you can ride horses, hike, walk the mountains & even play golf.
From June to September the Citadel houses art exhibitions by professional local artists from across the whole island of Corsica..
In late June The Calvi Jazz Festival attracts big names from the Jazz scene & you can go to concerts in the Citadel & jam sessions on the Quay Landry.
"Calvi On The Rocks" occur every year in July. It consists of electronic music & a digital arts festival with nightly concert in the Citadel.
I wish you a wonderful trip to Corsica - the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte - and whether you choose a hostel, a hotel or a villa vacation in Calvi I am confident you're going to have a good time in the charming town & the stunning surroundings.
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