We left the campsite via the main road and not really having any idea where we would end up today. Five minutes down the road, we drove through St. Florent and instantly felt compelled to stop and walk back to the pastry shop in the village center. St. Florent has a beautiful little harbor and diving excursions leave from here. As we walked to the Pastry shop, we spied a Motor Scooter rental shop. Needless to say, we never made it to the pastry shop. We had 6 hours to ride our scooter up and down the coast and visit all the little villages that were inaccessible in the camper.
With Matt driving and me on the back looking my best in my sporty biker helmet, we were off to Centuri. It was great! Matt could actually enjoy the views while I got to notice all the little cool spots we had missed the day before. I was worried that the motor bike zipping around at 45 mph on the few straight-aways, would not be fast enough on a main road, but then I remembered that camper rarely went over 25mph and cyclists are also on the road. For some odd reason, there was hardly any traffic on the narrow road today as opposed to yesterday. Only one bus came towards us in the on-coming lane and there were a few times we actually passed cars when we saw them. It’s so much easier to judge the road on the motorbike. Seeing the road from this perspective with the sheer cliffs really made me wonder how we ever made it down this road at all yesterday. Turns out Matt was thinking the same thing.
1 hour and 45 minutes later, we arrived in the tiny fishing village of Centuri. It was just as pretty as I had hoped. We were both starving, but in a village that centers around fish and lobster, it was hard finding a menu item that was not seafood-based for Matt. Finally, we found a cute little patio restaurant overlooking the harbor. The menu was all in French, but I knew grilled lobster when I saw it. The price…15 euro…or so I thought, until I noticed the “/gram” Hmmm, perhaps a lobster lunch would not be the low price of 15 euros as I had thought. Turns out lobster is 15 euros per 100 grams and a standard lobster which was brought live to the table next to us for inspection weighs in at 500 grams. Therefore, a lobster lunch would be 75 euro or $102.00! Instead, I just enjoyed a nice Dorado fish and Matt had the local pizza. I could have stayed in the village all afternoon taking photos, but we had to get moving.
Next stop, the uber tiny village of Tulare, which we could see way below on the coast yesterday when standing on the Northern most cliffs. I didn’t even know what the village was like, I just wanted to get down to it since we had the bike and check it out. The ride down was really pretty and the road dead ends at the village. The village was very austere and functional. Across the water was a little uninhabited island and a lobster diver was working just off the shore. It felt like a big accomplishment just to have gotten there.
The bike ride back to St. Florent was 2 hours. We stopped to stretch our legs a few times and coasted into St. Florent exactly at 6pm on gas fumes. This was definitely my favorite day of the trip!
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