In which Alice Payne enjoys a whistlestop journey through this beguiling French island. Early this morning, I was flying through the sky on a tranquil flight to Corsica. Just a few hours later, I am unpleasantly surprised to find myself flying through the sky again – this time on a speedboat. As we hurtle across the ocean, with the boat launching itself off huge cresting waves before hovering in mid-air and plunging at alarming angles into the next rising summit of water, I start to regret having put the remote Lotu beach on our itinerary. "I…don't…think…this…is…SAFE!" I shout to my two friends – the only others on this boat rodeo. My words are immediately eaten by the wind, so I focus instead on attempting a rising trot, which seems to be the only thing between me and a holiday marred by back injury. "Next time, I'm taking the ferry," I mutter. But my regrets evaporate when we eventually pull up to a small wooden jetty surrounded by turquois
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