The Shifting Sands

Lizzy and Lucy boarding Nicola's lovingly restored Fiat 500 complete with original Napoli number plate With a walk in Corsica complete, it was time to regather all the Cantwell/White women folk.  Kate from Corsica, Ada from Grimaud (a village near St Tropez) and Lucy who traveled from London via Nice. Lucy was travelling with her best friend from school in Mumbai, Lizzy. All the girls were in tow! Ewan's Boston Whaler racing across the bay. The photo is from a helicopter whose sole purpose is taking photos of people in their boats and selling the images! We were meeting at our friends house in Cap D'Antibes.  It is a great place and we have described it in other posts. The centre piece of our two days in Antibe was lunch at Club 55 or, as it is often referred to, Cinqante Cinq. The Beach Club was established when a basic cabana on Pampelonne Beach on the Med side of the old fishing village of St Tropez ...

We flew to Figari dressed and packed for our first day walking and after a short transfer we found ourselves at the campground in Conca It was more than I expected in many ways and thank goodness I was not really aware of all I might experience walking my first Grand Randonee, one of the famous European multi day walks . Day 1 saw us climb about 1000 metres from Conca to a Bergerie at Refuge De Paliri through a craggy granite range The Gr20 on Corsica (Corse en Français) is the most famous of all. A 16 stage walk from North to South or as Chris and I would have it- South to North. Day 2 saw us in pretty pine forests for most of the day as we passed through Col De Bavella for a coffee and..... With the sun on our back and a gradual increase day by day of technical difficulty it was the right choice for me. We only had a week so could only travel the Southern part and complete seven stages...