Today's "Port of call" is Corsica, famous for being the birth place of Napolean Bonaparte and the home base of the French Foreign Legion. The port we have arrived at is Ajaccio, and after a late breakfast and an hour lounging with our books we set off to explore. We came across Napolean's house, or "Maison Bonaparte" as it is helpfully described as on the tourist map. After seeing the house and taking some pictures I considered leaving for the French mainland, raising an army and then marching on Moscow, but then thought better of it - that would be just barmy..
We needed to find a cafe with Wi fi and have something to eat, now some people think that French fast food is crepe, but personally I don't think it's that bad - so crepe "avec jambon et fromage", and crepe "ratatouille", washed down with local lager and coffee hit the spot.
We were sat in the same cafe as both the stand-up comedians from our ship, they were at the next table to us so I had to keep my voice down because I didn't want them stealing any of my material.
Ajaccio is a lovely little port, but like nearly every place we've been to so far there is significant building works going on, pavements dug up, roads closed, scaffolding over lots of houses, a real pain...
On our ship they usually have a party by the pool as we leave port, and tonight was no exception - "The great British sail-out" is how it is billed in the on-ship entertainment guide, "there will be over 2000 folk partying and sipping cocktails to live music, (courtesy of house band "Electrix"), waving flags and singing along"... Well we certainly weren't among them, we sat on our balcony, finished off our champagne and considered ourselves fortunate for being well away from all the "fun", ("bah humbug").
Sounds like your having a great time Mr D! Not sure about the hat though!
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