Beautiful Excursions
Season 18
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Échappées Belles is a French weekly discovery magazine, broadcast on Saturdays in the first part of the evening on France 5 since September 30, 2006. It is presented in turn by Sophie Jovillard, Jérôme Pitorin, Ismaël Khelifa, Tiga, Sabine Quindou, Théo Curin and Anto Cocagne.
Where to Watch Season 18
34 Episodes
- Corse, l'île aux trésors
E2Corse, l'île aux trésorsA nice excursion of Sabine Quindou from Calvi ( the fisherman Joseph Ricco-dit Petit Jo-, the fishing moment in the Bay of Calvi, the red scorpion fish, the meeting with the Catholic priest Brother Baudoin , the walk through Calvi-the citadel with its ramparts, Corsica has been invaded so many times-, the eating of an ice cream, Anthony Albertini and his motor rickshaw-the pride to be Corsican-, the Notre Dame de la Serra church, the Virgin Mary statue broken by a thunderbolt and the fund-raising for a new statue, the visit of the Convent of Corbara, the other statue of the Virgin Mary in the mountain and the moment of diving to see the little statue of the Virgin Mary in an underwater cave) to Calvi again (the skipper Rémi and Marianne, the sailboat "Belle Aventure" and the crossing to the continent- a ecological transport-) passing by Calvi (the ceramist and plastic artist Cathy Astolfi , the workshop and the exhibition of the works in the river of the Vallée du Fango and at the sea side), by the Vallée du Fango (the climbing instructor Samuel Bourcey and the climbing of a rock-the special technique of climbing using above all the feet-) by the Désert des Agriates (Toto-the solitary inhabitant of the region, its autonomy with the vegetable garden, the solar panels and the fishing, the open door for the visitors, the "carpe diem" philosophy and the snack prepared for Sabine), by the Plage de l'Ostriconi ( Piere-Ange Guidicelli and Léa Bourgian of the Association "Mare vivu", the volunteers picking and analyzing the plastic wastes on the beach, the pedalo-sailboat tour and the snorkeling to see the common stingray) and by the Clos du Mouflon (the ecological guesthouse manged by Mauro Pigino and Carole Micheloud, the respect for the nature, the use of local products for the meals- the eggs of the poultry farm, the vegetables of the vegetable garden and the Corsican cheeses of a neighbor-, the slow and sensory walk through the forest with Carole). Besides we see zooms about the discovery of the Balagne, about the environmental protection of the coastline, about the plants of the maquis, about the Corsica Raid Femina, and the Corsican donkey and the mules, about the ornithologist Carole Attie and the red kite and about the Centre de Soins "U Pettirossu".
