WALK & EAT CORSICA : CONTENTS  (to return to the main page, click here)

PLANS OF BASTIA AND AJACCIO  inside front cover

INTRODUCTION   4
the walks  5
the railway excursion   5
the restaurants   6
the recipes   6
corsican food  7
corsican wines  9
planning your visit   11
when to go  11
where to stay   12
what to take   12
planning your walks   13
on arrival   14
information  14
shopping for self-catering   14

Walk 1 · bonifacio   16
restaurant: u castille  23
recipes: stuffed aubergines bonifacio-style, omelette with brocciu   24

Walk 2 · forêt de l'ospédale  26
restaurant: le refuge  31
recipes: fig chutney, wild boar stew with ceps   32

Walk 3 · trou de la bombe   38
restaurant: auberge du col de bavella  39
recipes: veal cutlets with honey sauce, chestnut tart   40

Walk 4 · pointe de la parata   42
restaurant: le weekend  46
recipe: courgette fritters   47

Walk 5 · cascades des anglais   48
restaurant: hôtel du monte d'oro  54
recipes: duck breast with honey sauce, trout with pine nuts   56

Walk 6 · the venacos   58
restaurants: le torrent and bar/restaurant de la place  64
recipes: chicken in curry and coconut milk, vegetable 'cake'   66

Walk 7 · la restonica   68
restaurant: auberge de la restonica  73
recipes: roast leg of lamb with garlic, grilled sea bass with fennel  74

Walk 8 · cascades d'aitone   76
restaurant: l'aitone  80
recipes: rabbit sautéed with ceps  81

Walk 9 · sentier du littoral   82
restaurant: u furnellu 87
recipes: two ways with mussels, 'petit Napoléon'  88

Walk 10 · ostriconi   90
restaurant: village de l'ostriconi  93

Walk 11 · notre-dame de la serra   94
restaurant: u fanale   99
restaurants: u casanu, le comme chez soi  100
recipe: traditional corsican soup   102
recipes: meat stew with smoked ham, salade bergère   103
recipes: langoustine risotto, pork and chestnut terrine  104

Walk 12 · lumio, occi and lavatoggio   106
restaurants: chez charles and chez edgard  111
recipe: seafood salad with a citrus vinagrette  112
recipe: veal sauté with prunes and figs  112

Walk 13 · sant' antonino and l'île-rousse   114
refreshments/restaurant: cave à citron and la cave  121
recipes: corsican-style red mullet, chestnut cake, fiadone   122

excursion · 'u trinichellu'  124

island map (excluding cap corse)   126

recipes: braised endives with panzetta, beans corsican-style   130
recipe: chestnut sauerkraut with chestnut beer   131

TRANSPORT   132

EAT GF, DF   134
eating in restaurants  135
self-catering   136
gf, df shopping  136
gf, df cooking; conversion tables  138

GLOSSARY (menu items, shopping terms)   139

INDEX   141

In the restaurant (pocket vocabulary)  inside back cover