Dipping A Toe in France’s Ardeche
This post will most likely make Nutmeg’s Corsican friends angry.
Why bother with the hassle of an overnight ferry, crowded beaches and small twisty roads? If you want to feel like you, have experienced a bit of Corsica without leaving the French mainland, plan a trip to the Ardèche region.
The similarities between, the beautiful island of Corsica and the Ardèche are significant, see below:
Corsica
Ardeche
Surface Area
8,680 sq km
5,550 sq km
Widest Point
82 km
75 km
Highest Peak
2,706 metres Mont Cinto
1,754 metres Mont Mézenc
Population
302,000
309,000
Annual Visitors
Roughly 2 million
Roughly 3 million
Agriculture
Chestnuts
Chestnuts
Olives
Olives
Grapes
Grapes
Goats, Sheep
Goat, Sheep, Cows
Figs
Figs
Beaches
1000 km of coastline
Countless River banks
Geographic Formation
Volcanic
Volcanic
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