Corsica 2014

I feel like I owe some sort of apology for not having blogged for a long, long time.  If I tried to play catch-up, though, this blog post would never get finished.  So, instead, here's our latest:  We just got back from a two-week trip to Corsica!  We had to drive for a day and a half to get to Nice, where we took the boat.  On the way, we saw this, the city of Carcassonne:

 From the boat, this was one of our first glimpses of Corsica. 

 Tassia was somehow very photogenic on this leg of the trip:

 Corsica must be one of the most beautiful places on earth.  It has an awesome combination of mountains:

And beach!

 We rented a house outside of Ajaccio (the main city of southern Corsica.)  From our front porch, we could see this:

 and this.

 And, out back, there was this.  Yes, there was a pony in the back yard, and we had the horrible task of visiting and feeding the pony twice a day.  The girls look like they suffered a lot, don't they?

 We took the opportunity on this trip to visit Filitosa, an important archaeological site.  In a field belonging to some acquaintances of Thomas's grandfather's, they discovered these megalithic statues carved in the shapes of warriors.  Apparently, they are some of the oldest megalithic representations of people known anywhere in the world.

 Oh, and a rock that looks like a dinosaur.

To be continued...