CORSICA OF COURSE

Île de Beauté

No one has, nor probably ever will again, cut my hair as well as a certain coiffeur did in the small town in the north of France where we used to live. One look at these photos and it's easy to understand, much to my dismay and split ends, why he packed up and retired to Corsica. Not surprisingly, the Mediterranean island and French region is nicknamed Île de Beauté.

Vocabulary

la Corse:  Corsica

un coiffeur, -euse:  a hairdresser

les fourches:  split ends

la beauté:  beauty

une île:  an island

un coquelicot:  a poppy

Photos  of poppies on the coastline near Porto-Vecchio courtesy of  Marianne Lecron.

©2012 P.B. Lecron

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

My adult kids have just returned from Corsica, so for the next few days I'll be posting favorite pics from their holiday, making it in a way, public. Coincidentally, today is a public holiday; France and Europe commemorate May 8, 1945, the date when World War II allied forces formally accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender, putting an end to Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Did you know that Ajaccio, in the aerial view of the coastline above, was the very first French city to be liberated during WWII? 

Photo courtesy of Marianne Lecron

©2012 P.B. Lecron