which we came or follow the road 8 kms to our destination, being a bit worn out by this point we found a quiet spot for our picnic and siesta and then started up the road instead of climbing back the 2 km straight up the mountain where we had missed the trail! It being hot and not as nice walking on the road side with cars and trucks whizzing by we decided to hitch a ride to the hostel. Brigitte wanted to continue her mountain trek to our next destination and decided to find her way back to the path and join up with us later at the hostel at St Georges. We grumbled a bit, feeling that it might not be a good idea to break up and let her go on her own into the woods, but she went and we made it up to the hostel with one or two passes of the thumb and Brigitte finished her hike to the hostel a couple of hours later with out further ado.

Col St Georges Porticcio in 5 hours, straight down to the sea. The last part of our journey started early as we knew that we had to make it to Ajaccio to catch our boat and after the misadventure of our departure we did not want to be late so off we went a 7 am at a very hearty pace. My foot was much better after having given it a couple of days off the boot.

The hills, the bird song, the flowers, surrounded us from one end of our trip to the other. We sang and flirted with nature as we knew that this would be the last day of our trip.

After about 4 hours of going without a break we stopped and ate the last of our supplies, lounged in the grass and talked about the journey.

We reached Porticcio just in time to find out that we had missed the last bus to Ajaccio for the day by 15 minutes and it was only 2 in the afternoon ha, ha no fear after what happened in Santa Maria Sich the day before we decided to split into two groups and hitchhike into Ajaccio which went much more quickly than we thought possible and allowed us to meet some wonderful locals who shared of few of their favourite Corsican pastimes with us very entertaining.

Twice around Ajaccio old town, a few souvenirs, a couple of postcards and some ice cream and it was time to board the boat ON time!

AJACCIO/MARSEILLE on the PAGLIA ORBA of the SNCM a larger boat than the one that had brought us and I will add I highly recommend staying with the smaller liners as the food is less expensive, the crew more friendly and the bar more accessible to all (price wise for sure!)

All in all I have to say that I was afraid before we left that I would not be able to keep up with my friends and that it would be difficult to lug my stuff on my back, but I did it! We did it and I am very glad that they invited me along and hope that they will invite me to join on other adventures they may be planning in the future.

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