🇫🇷 Corsica - Ghisoni, its mountains, lakes and free-roaming cows
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Saturday 2 May 2026, we swap the beach for inland Corsica. We head to Ghisoni, a mountain village about 40 minutes from Ghisonaccia, surrounded by forests and peaks. It’s the island’s other face, wilder and much cooler.
Here the animals are at home. Cows wander calmly through the village and along the roads, goats climb the rocks. You have to drive slowly, but it’s quite a sight.
At midday, lunch in the mountains at Ghisoni, with Corsican cheese and a pétanque pitch right next door to help with digestion. Nothing is more Corsican than a game of boules after lunch.
In the afternoon we climb to the lakes above Ghisoni. The water is crystal clear, the peaks still have a few patches of snow in early May, and it’s much colder than down below. In the evening, back to the coast and, as so often, another barbecue.
