I ride from Berlin to Riederau at Ammersee lake close to Munich. There I meet Marcellus. We load the bikes onto a trailer and the next day we proceed to Beat in Switzerland. We put the third bike onto the trailer and proceed over snow covered Alps and San Bernardino pass to Savona in Italy. Car and trailer get parked and we embark the ferry with our bikes. The next morning we arrive in Corsica.

I pass lignite mine Profen and have a look

Inside the lignite mine

At Beat's place: all three bikes are on the trailer

Much snow on San Bernardino Pass

The southern ramp of the pass

Off-Loading in Savona

The ferry

The bikes get secured

Departure in the evening

We arrive in the early morning in Bastia and ride right away up into the mountains. Then we turn north along the coast before we turn west towards Calvi.

Bastia in the morning

Another ferry follows

Getting ready for disembarkment

We are in Bastia

View back to Bastia

Col de la Serra

Col de la Serra

First coffee stop in a little fishing village

The fisherman maintains the fishnet

We have the Schoki-Box with us. It is filled with Swiss chocolate

Torra di Seneca at Santa Lucia pass. The view on top is supposed to be quite impressive

The view is indeed brilliant

The tower

Shore and Mountains

We make our lunch break in Nonza

Local cheese specialties

Spring

Bocca di Vezzu

Bocca di Vezzu

We have a nice loop south of Calvi. The red cliffs of Les Calanques de Piana are on the list and some more nice mountains too.

The day starts with rain

For the coffee break we find a place with an open fireplace

Pigs

Ponte Altu

It is quite cold on top of Col de Vergio

Rain while riding the moutains

Red cliffs of Les Calanques de Piana

Les Calanques de Piana

Tom and Beat

Les Calanques de Piana

View from Piana to Les Calanques de Piana

Beach Plage d'Arone

Spring

Capo Rosso

Goats on the road at Capo Rosso

Another Superduke rider on Col de Palmarella

In the evening a flight to the fortress of Calvi

Fortress Calvi

Fortress Calvi

Fortress Calvi

We move from Calvi in the North to Zonza in the South of the Island. In between we get a tire change for the Africa Twin.

Departure in Calvi with view to the fortress

On Col de Palmarella we notice the big bullet holes. How to transport arms of that size here?

Col de Palmarella

Goats on the road

Coffee break in Porto

View to mountains on road D84

Mountains at road D84

Mountains at road D84

Pigs are laying around as road blocks

View at Col de San Bastiano

While the tires get changed we notice the big number of big scooters in the shop. They sell better than motorbikes here.

The owner of the shop Christian Lucchini is former motorbike champion - of course

We do a western loop from Zonza. Many coastal roads and some higher mountains. We find Corsian specialties and some sun at the coast so we can have lunch in the sun at the beach.

Morning scene in Zonza

Coffee break. We stop at a shop for local specialties

It is all about pigs

The shop

Pig

A selection of specialties: Cheese and bacon

Riding over the mountain passes in the rain

Dinner at the fireplace

Evening scene in Zonza

Another big loop. We pass Bonifacio, a particular higlight.

Signs of spring in Zonza

The sandstone cliffs of Bonifacio come in sight

Bonifacio

Bonifacio

Bonifacio - The stairway Escalier du Roy d'Aragon

Bonifacio

Bonifacio

Bonifacio

Bonifacio

Bonifacio

We have our morning coffee break directly at the city hall

And there is a bridal couple

Bocca di Roccapina

Bocca di Roccapina

Marvellous view on road D55

Road D55

Pizza in the evening

Today we have good luck. the weather turns sunny, we find decent mountain roads with brilliant views and we have lunch with locals in the mountains. And even the morning starts with some good luck.

Preparations in the morning

Farewell from hotel owner Jean-Marie

Immediately tire pressure warning

A pin is in the tire

We turn around immediately. Jean-Marie has got a garage and a compressor and Marcellus carries a tire repair set.

Marcellus repairs the tire

Done. The whole operation took only 20 minutes

It is quite cold and windy on Col de Bavella

At river Solenzara it is already warm and sunny

View to the flat North East of the island

Us three Marcellus, Tom, Beat

Brilliant views on road D14

View on road D14

The restaurant is closed

View to the mountains

Lunch in a tiny village in the moutains. You eat what you get. Very tasty.

Beat

Asco valley is quite surprising. The dead end Haut-Asco is at about 4200 feet elevation. We ride up to the top first and want to take pictures on the way down. But the weather changes quite quickly

It starts to snow on top. One can see the white snow flakes on the seat.

L'Asco

I run into a group of Capricorns

Beat in Asco valley

Asco valley

Back to Bastia

Bastia

While waiting for the ferry I compile the tracklog of the day

Embarking the ferry

Departure

We do it the same way as we did on our way to Corsica. We load the bikes onto the trailer in Savona. Then we drive into Switzerland to Beat's place. We drop him off and proceed to Riederau at Ammersee lake. The next day I ride my bike home to Berlin.

Arrival in Savona

Backing into the landing place

Leaving the ferry

The bikes are on the trailer

San Bernardino pass

San Bernardino pass

Dropping off Beat

It is freezing cold in the morning and I get a freeze warning

Easter decoration

Spring

Spring