corsica

Tahiti, New Caledonia and maybe even Corsica (depending on who you speak to) are all treated like colonies.

For instance, France, Monaco, and Corsica are not part of Southern Europe, even though they are in the Mediterranean.

They sent paratroopers to capture Corsica in case anyone missed their point.

I spent a month cycling Corsica and Sardinia late season in 2013, just sleeping on the beaches and in the forests.

For the French, that a Bonaparte was ruling Corsica while being friendly with the big bad wolf (depending on the age, Brits or Russians maybe).

I never again made such assumptions, let's just say I should have gotten a clue from Corsica being 2A and 2B.

By the time the second Punic war was finished, Rome controlled all of Italy, most of Iberia, Greece, Corsica and Sicily.

I'd need the six month period so I could move from my retirement home in Malta or Corsica or wherever and get a job again.

Interesting that Corsica isn't connected.

And safety equipment was lacking and not consistently applied, for instance fuel tank skid plates were usually left off on asphalt tracks like corsica, which is likely how Toivonen's lancia instantly caught fire when it went off the road.

I enjoyed my 200km walk across the mountains Corsica far more than the plane ride from New Mexico to France… However it’s possible that you can actually become more aware of and participate in the larger process.

I have hundreds, maybe thousand of memories linked to hiking and camping with my parents (we went on 'kayak hike', and everytime I sail or just visit around gersais/guenersay, the emerald coast, corsica or southern France I make a trip down memory lane.

"Oh look, there's the FBI in an unmarked '95 Corsica"...

And I can tell you that also there is a strong immigration community in Corsica (among mostly racist and weaponized natives, it must be "interesting"), most of that was done by traditional Corsicans.

The French illegally checked everyone passports on Arrival when I Flew to Corsica once, but I don't expect much from them with all their "Plan Vigipirate" Bullshit which is also just about reducing freedom under the guise of "Protection against Terrorism".

During one of his group's missions over Southern France (he was based out of Corsica) they had a NCO from a ground division onboard, who at one point remarked "boy I'm sure glad I'm up here far away from all of the chaos and hell on the ground." Two minutes later a 3-inch piece of German flak penetrated the NCO's seat and missed his balls by under an inch.

Whereas Google Maps has just about every road in Bastia (Corsica, France) accurately labeled, Apple Maps had almost none.

This was only a few weeks after the fatalities of driver Henri Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto in the Rally of Corsica.

Later edit: Apparently that map is based on this mid-19th century data sample: Percentages of blond hair in the Italian regions (including Corsica).