Breaking bread with a brigand

SARDINIA and Corsica are physically similar.

Both are islands in the Mediterranean. Sardinia, about the size and shape of Leinster is Italian; Corsica is French, and smaller. Both islands have beautiful beaches and high mountainous.

We flew into Alghero in Sardinia from Dublin; the fare was cheap and car rental reasonable. After five days on Sardinia, we took the ferry to Corsica — an hour’s voyage — and spent four days there. Vive le différence, as the French-speaking Corsicans might say. However it seems that a small minority of the islanders prefer to use their own language. Town names and signposts are displayed in French and Corsican. The French is often spray-painted over.