Bonjour,

We are now in Corsica France for the next couple of weeks.  We arrived at our hotel at around 10:30pm Thursday night and had a great night’s sleep.

After a nice breakfast of small croissant, chocolate croissant, baguette and caffe latte

we went for walk in to town to look for an adapter for the electrical outlets.  On our way back we stopped at a great little market for picnic supplies.

Would you believe this is almost all grown on Corsica?  or France?

Then we spent the next several hours assembling our bike, drinking wine, and eating bread, cheese and fresh fruit all from the little market and all very local.

A great way to assemble the tandem.

Once the bike was put together we put on our swim suits, bike shoes and helmets and headed out for a short 15km ride to the beach where we went for a wonderful swim in the Mediterranean Sea.  The water was so warm and refreshing.  No camera this time so you’ll just have to imagine it.  It was around 4:30 in the afternoon and a very warm day.  We didn’t even bring towels with us.  After our swim it was back on the bike and back to the hotel to await the arrival of the rest of our group – great friends from Ashland Oregon – Ron and Elizabeth, Rick and Pat, and Mary and Dave.  Then a late, incredibly good dinner next door of salad and pizza and of course, vin.