CORSICA / KORZIKA

We decided to start at the beginning, with our very first holiday “far” away from home. To a certain degree this holiday awoke in us the love for travelling we did not knew before. Just after after high-school, the summer before we went to university we visited one of the most beautiful island of Europe – the wild beauty Corsica. We fell so much in love, that we visited the island again the following year.

Corsica is a great island for campers, if not ideal. The prices are low (16-20EUR for 2pers., 1 car, 1 tent) in comparison to Italian or Croatian camps and there is a campsite practically at every corner. We are both not a fan of being limited with dates, therefore we never make reservations, but simply stay where we like it most. But in case you are travelling in a large group, we have to add that the camps in Corsica tend to be rather small (compared to Italian and Spanish campsites) so you should check before and maybe make a reservation especially in high season.

Since the camps are often family run, they tend to be relatively simple with the basic infrastructure needed in a camp. For us this is perfectly OK, since we are not fans of animators and swimming pools 10m from the sea. There were also a couple of this kind of campsites, but we avoided them on purpose.

The owners are usually friendly and helpful, especially if you speak French or Italian. In the most camps we managed with bad French, a couple of words in English, hand gestures and a smile :)

Both times we were in Corsica at the beginning of September. The weather was good and we experienced no rain except once there was a shower, when we camped near Corte, in the higher parts of the Island.

Since pictures tell more then a thousand words please find below our impressions.

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Začeli bomo z našim prvim potovanjem “daleč” od doma. V neki meri je to potovanje ključno, saj je v naju vzbudilo ljubezen do popotovanja. V poletju po končani maturi in pred začetkom faksa sva obiskala po najinem mnenju enega najlepših otokov v Evropi – divjo lepotico Korziko. V otok sva se celo zaljubila v takšni meri, da sva obiskala še enkrat v naslednjem letu.

Korzika je odličen otok za kampiraše, če ne skoraj idealen. Cene so nizke (16-20EUR za 2oseb., 1 avto, 1 šotor) v primerjavi z italjanskimi ter hrvaškimi kampi, kampi pa se nahajajo tako rekoč na vsakem koraku. Ker ne želiva biti omejena z datumi, nikoli ne vnaprej rezervirava kampov ampak ostaneva tam, kjer nama je lepo. Bi pa dodala opozorilo za kapiraše, ki potujete v večjih skupinah – kampi na Korziki so običajno relativno majhni (v primerjavi z francoskimi ter španskimi kampi) posledično je morda pametno za večje skupine rezervirati prostor še posebej v visoki sezoni.

Glede na to, da so kampi na Korziki pogosto v lasti družin, so običajno enostavni in imajo osnovno infrastrukturo, ki jo kampiraš potrebuje. Midva imava take kampe raje kot bolj “luksuriozne” saj ne marava animatorjev in bazenov 10m od morja. Obstajajo pa tudi taki kampi na Korziki, žal kaj več nimava za povedati, saj sva se jim izognila v velikem loku.

Lastniki kampov so običajno prijazni in radi pomagajo, predvsem ko z njimi govoriš italjansko ali francosko. V večini kampov sva shajala z slabo francoščino, nekaj angleških izrazov, govorico rok ter nasmeškom :)

Obakrat sva obiskala ta prelep otok v začetku septembra. Vedno sva imela zelo lepo in toplo vreme, le enkrat nas je ujela nevihta, ko sva kampirala v višje ležečih krajih Korzike blizu mesteca Corte (kjer je med drugim pravo “gnezdo” slovencev :)).

Ker slike povedo več kot tisoč besed pripenjamo nekaj utrinkov iz obeh potovanj.