Algajola

While travelling the West coast we decided to anchor and go ashore at Algajola, a tiny resort where we had spent a happy two-week holiday about six years ago at the “Hotel de la Plage”.  While anchoring a man swam out and asked us a question in French with a heavy Franglais accent.  “Parlez vous Anglais?” I asked.  “Yes” he said, slightly put out.  We chatted for a while and it turned out he had a Corsican girlfriend and was also a Dorothy Carrington fan.  Later we met them both at the “Hotel de la Plage” for a drink and it turned out they had taken Dorothy C out to lunch a couple of years previously, not long before she died.  His description was of a formidable English upper class lady, known throughout the island as “Lady Rose” who spoke grammatically perfect French, but with a militantly English accent.  Looking back it’s a shame we didn’t swap contact numbers.