As the beach of Ile Rousse is very crowed during the main season, the next couple of days, we frequently went to the bigger, more isolated beaches in the surroundings. We made one excursion to the adjacent city of Calvi to visit the medieval city walls of the city and the numerous little churches.
We went to the mountains in the centre of Corsica several times to hike through the Macchia, the dense undergrowth covering the mountains, and explore the little mountain villages, some of which are only accessible by foot. These isolated villages seem to have not really changed for many years and they are absolutely worth a visit, even though they do not offer real sights. If you go there in summer, however, you should always make sure that there are no forest fires in the area you wish to cross and that you do not lose your way in the Macchia. Once we even discovered a little waterfall which fell into a deep green pool. The water was very clear and the pool, which was very deep, was surrounded by flat cliffs, so that we nearly felt reminded of a swimming pool. We had the impression that no person had ever been here, and apart from the purling of the waterfall there was absolute silence. So we rejected all plans to continue our tour and stayed at the waterfall to bath and sun until the early evening.
We spent our evenings in Ile Rousse either all together on the camping ground or we sat on the cliffs of the steep coast and enjoyed a beer and the view of Ile Rousse and the coast.
After three weeks on Corsica, we started our return journey and I and my girl-friend took a flight again, while the others took the car. The return journey turned out to be very exhausting because we had a 13-hour stop at Nice airport, most of the time during the night, and not one of the shops at our terminal was open. So we had ice cream from the automate and spent all night playing card games as there was not even a bank suitable for sleeping. We arrived back in Germany on the next midday a little tired but in a good mood.