Sean Lennon Day 13, Bastia (Corsica), FR
Seeing as we're on vacation for most of the week, we slept in. Late. I got up at 2:30pm. We didn't really know where to go for food yet, so we went down to the hotel restaurant where we paid about 4 times what the food was worth, it was good though, just not much in the quantity department. After that, we attempted to rent scooters to run around the island, but we were shot down due to our lack of scooter experience. Sigh. So, slightly disappointed, we walked around the downtown area for a little while, and I use the term "downtown" loosely, found a grocery store so we could stock up for the week, and then proceeded to ask some locals where the "hot spots" were in terms of nightlife. That didn't go so well. I asked for at least a name of a bar so I could look it up myself, and was told I should just check with the tourist office, no one would help me.
And so we headed back to the hotel to hang out on the terrace overlooking the Mediterranean and we made some plans for dinner. We worked it out so we could get some taxis to go out to The Pirate Restaurant, which came highly recommended. Turns out the pirates were the cabbies. After arguing for a long time when we got dropped off, they finally explained that different times of day have different rates, and not only do they charge to drive you somewhere, they charge from the moment they leave the station tile the moment they get back! So, what would be a $7 cab ride in NYC ends up costing 30 Euros each way! Insane! We decided right then we were only going to places in walking distance for the rest of the week.
Anyways, the dinner was a little mediocre given the amount of money we paid, it wasn't terrible, but not great by any means. Unfortunately we had to call cabs to go back to the hotel, and with the luck we have, the same cabbies came to pick us up. Not only did they come to get us, but they stood at the end of our table til we were ready to go. Unreal.
So we get back to the hotel, go down to the pool and enjoy the water til we all run out of energy and decide to crash.
And so we headed back to the hotel to hang out on the terrace overlooking the Mediterranean and we made some plans for dinner. We worked it out so we could get some taxis to go out to The Pirate Restaurant, which came highly recommended. Turns out the pirates were the cabbies. After arguing for a long time when we got dropped off, they finally explained that different times of day have different rates, and not only do they charge to drive you somewhere, they charge from the moment they leave the station tile the moment they get back! So, what would be a $7 cab ride in NYC ends up costing 30 Euros each way! Insane! We decided right then we were only going to places in walking distance for the rest of the week.
Anyways, the dinner was a little mediocre given the amount of money we paid, it wasn't terrible, but not great by any means. Unfortunately we had to call cabs to go back to the hotel, and with the luck we have, the same cabbies came to pick us up. Not only did they come to get us, but they stood at the end of our table til we were ready to go. Unreal.
So we get back to the hotel, go down to the pool and enjoy the water til we all run out of energy and decide to crash.
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