We had a bit of a lie in and then got moving around 8-o-clock. I went and bought bread from the shop just outside the campsite and we had breakfast sitting outside again.
After breakfast, we went exploring the local area. We briefly rejoined the main road, the N196 before turning off near Pisciatello onto the D302. This road, marked as a scenic route, wound its way through scrub covered hills to a small pass, the Col de Bellevalle at 465M. The road then squiggled its way all the way down to a small river and then back to the village of Bisinao before climbing up to another pass, the Col de Aja Bastiano at 600M. From here, the road was all downhill following the river Taravo down to the coast near Propriano.
The route we took from here, followed the coast back towards Porticcio. Firstly, we joined the D155 along a narrow road and then turned off down the D155a to a pretty bay at Plage de Cupabia. It was rather windy here, but it was clearly a rather nice place to spent some time on a beach. There was a memorial to a team of Frenchmen caught during WW2 trying to aid the allies.
[Internet research tells me that on 6th Feb 1943, a Royal Navy submarine, HMS Saracen P247 under the command of Lt M G R Lumby, landed 3 men, Guy Verstraete (aka Vlaminck aka Vernuge), a Belgian Naval officer and wireless operator for this mission, Antoine Colonna d'Istria and Charles Simon Andrei, at a beach near Scogliu Biancu, Cupabia Bay. Verstraete and Andrei were arrested on 12 Apr 1942 and executed on 06 July 1942. Two other people accused of assisting were deported to a prison in Italy where they were killed in a air-raid in 1944.]
After that, we rejoined the D155 and continued following the coast. There were some great views of the coast as we climbed up over headlands but nowhere to stop for a coffee which was a shame. Finally, we ended up back at Porticcio where we did manage to get a drink!
After briefly returning to the campsite, we decided to go into Ajaccio which is the current Capitol of Corsica. It is quiet a large town, perhaps a city. We managed to negotiate the traffic and some very narrow streets before finding a parking place right down by the marina. We walked up into the old town and found a cafe for lunch on Place Foch, the centre of the old town.
After lunch we had a short walk around the marina before heading to Decathalon for a look around and on to a large Carrefour where we bought an electric coolbox that runs on mains and also car battery. It will save trying to get the freezer blocks refrozen daily.
Back on the campsite we sat around and relaxed and wandered around the site bird watching in the evening.
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