Camping De La Plage

“Lovely site - perfect location”

We spent two night in mid September (the start of our week long camping trip to Corsica at Camping de la Plage. Pros: Lovely site, hardly anyone there, camped under the shady pine trees opposite the tiny station platform that serves the site. Walked across the single lane track to the lovely b… lisää

We spent two night in mid September (the start of our week long camping trip to Corsica at Camping de la Plage. Pros: Lovely site, hardly anyone there, camped under the shady pine trees opposite the tiny station platform that serves the site. Walked across the single lane track to the lovely beach. There are some nice restaurants on the beach (though some had shut for the season). It was also a really nice short stroll into Algajola which is a really cute little town with some lovely restaurants. We chose this site as it was a short drive from Bastia airport where we flew in to and on the kind recommendation of people on the Corsica forum (thank you Paddy and Nancy). The drive from the airport was gorgeous and a lovely gentle introduction to the beauty of Corsica. There's a large area on the headland where lots of people stop to take in the view en route with a great little café selling homemade sandwiches. This gave us a great introduction to Corsica (having to speak French, taking in the lovely views) so if you are driving from Bastia, I recommend it. The woman who we checked in with was lovely, she spoke very limited English (and I speak less French) but we managed to work it out. The shop is pretty well stocked and again the lady in there was very friendly. Personally I think you can wear down the typical Corsican rudeness with a persistently and relentlessly sunny disposition! In the end, they just give up and are nice to you. There was a man constantly driving a little van about, sweeping up the pine needles but they weren't any bother. Cons: Very few really. The toilet block needs updating (and I didn't know before the trip that no Corsican campsites supply toilet paper and none of the toilets have seats!) You can hear the little train through the night but it only runs every four hours or so and I quite liked it. It is certainly a small price to pay to be able to hop on the train (the timetable is posted by the railway track) and pop into Calvi for the afternoon.

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