September 20, 2010

Christine's house is the most beautiful place I have ever stayed. It's an old, huge French countryside-ish farmhouse on a hillside overlooking a small village (turns out it's called Moltifao). She owns the entire hillside and it's all one giant olive grove. It's just the other girl, Alexandra, and me staying there but Christine sometimes has guests who pay to stay.

The party was for her friends and people that live in the village and neighbors and the like. All Alexandra and I had to do was set up and clean up. 

Yesterday Alex and I got the day off from work so we hitchhiked to Calvi. Apparently hitchhiking is both safe and acceptable on Corsica. We found cars to take us after less than ten minutes each time. Calvi was beautiful. There are great beaches and the home (at one time or another) of Christopher Columbus. We saw his house. 

Today we took the middle of the day off to hike down the mountain and swim in a beautiful, clear little river. The hike down was enjoyable but the hike back up was long. We took a cow-path. Apparently they build paths here just for the cows to get around. Tomorrow we are doing something to do with preparing the olives: I did not understand exactly what.