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Impressions Of Corsica

John Elkington · 8 June 2025 · Leave a Comment

Due to WordPress changing their rules on images in blogs like this one, I have had to further process the photos below – with the result that ones showing skies are rendered more like Impressionist paintings. And (although I am dating this post back to when we returned) the process of sorting it out has taken ages. Still, I’ll try and resolve the underlying problems in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, here is a brief photo essay on our trip to Corsica with Gaia and Paul, who organised the entire trip.

We started off in Ajaccio, then went north through Tuarelli and Calvi, before taking in Oletta and then looping back south through the centre of the island. One of the most extraordinary visits was to Hôtel E Caselle. Established in 1966 in Venaco in the heart of a regional nature park. Wonderful to be greeted by (a huge photo of) Marianne Faithful and to swim (in Gaia’s case) in the river that flows nearby.

Although both Elaine and I returned with something like Covid, though it didn’t test that way, the trip was an utter delight – and we came to see why Gaia and Paul are so enraptured with the island.

These boats caught me eye in the Musée Fesch
As did this bust of Bonaparte
The original photo of Gaia’s head was better, but this boating moment has a certain psychedelic charm
Fish tanks seen from one of our hotels – not surprisingly we also saw dolphins sniffing around
Some of the roads were vertiginous, but happily I wasn’t driving
The game’s afoot: Paul and Gaia
Stairway into a citadel
A moment of calm
They do love their sangliers
The message, or one of them: Life is hard
Distorted, but the moment when the setting Sun became an apple
Driftwood
An impression of Gaia
Lining up on the runway
Romanesque church of San Michele de Murato
Ditto
Discarded clay at a potter’s studio we visited
Sunset
Collared
The vagaries of wealth: a rotting gold Cadillac, full of skulls and bones
Hello, Marianne
Honesty goes to seed
Gaia in her element
A frog, ditto
Goldfish
Nearing La Cascade des Anglais
Sufi-like umbrellas
Shadows of the past: palaeolithic site of Filitosa
Gaia takes flowers to lay on the grave of Dorothy Carrington
Grave and flowers
Our kind, happy hosts

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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