Lingo Guest House Bugibba

We arrived this morning, everyone on the top deck to witness our entry into port. It was so windy up top that one almost fell over. I enjoyed playing Winged Victory while watching the coastline.
The harbor is fantastic, ancient fortified walls, forts, escarpments, limestone, cobblestones, towers, ships. The colors hurt the eye they are so brilliant. From the sea to the sky to the boats and wooden ...

I've just popped over to Malta for a day & a bit (as you do!) to say a quick hello / goodbye to my parents (and bring them lots of goodies over for the last time in a while).

The weather is a little warmer than the UK, but not as warm as it's going to be in a week's time (ha ha ha).

Anyway, I'll keep this blog short so ciao for now!

Anita x

... He went on to say and I quote “Those Italian’s they are just s—t”. At that stage thought it was time to take our leave, hoping the next unsuspecting visitors waiting to get in weren’t Italians. We left port at sunset and the views over the city, with the beautiful, unusual cloud formations, made for a spectacular exit.

Sicily

Not on our list of places to return to. Grimy, full of rubbish but to be ...

... duped by the online descriptions that make the walk into the city sound rough.

Our tour guide is a dowdy English woman who is wearing a flower print dress and speaks with a breathlessly nasal English accent. “Thish ish a shtashtue of Shaint Jamesh, and-a….” she speaks like this as we follow her along the cobblestone streets lined with stone buildings. Our first stop is the Upper Baracca Gardens, a ...

... of the other best-known of 'man's best friends'. The Mediterranean itself has NOT been settled since time immemorial either, a fact which probably prejudices many European historians against prehistorical sea-based migration, since it took us so long to get our sea legs, not surprising since we apparently mustered our forces originally on the Asian steppes. European history is about horses, not boats. The first explorers of the ...

... miket mondok, az tényleg vicces nap volt). Itt, mint a Földközi-tenger körül a legtöbb helyen az a szokás, hogy a buszvezető kitesz egy tálkát az ajtó mellé és a borravalón osztozik az idegenvezetővel. Ezt mindig el is mondom, a legtöbben adnak is egy kis aprót, de nekem sokan elfelejtik legalább szóban megköszönni, hogy fordítottam, egy szó nélkül leszállnak a buszról és mennek vissza a szállodába. Persze van olyan utas is, aki már Magyarországr ...

... buildings. They have a bit of a door knocker obsession here, see the following pics to see what we mean. We wander right through the town and exit through where a train line once came in to the town. Back on the bus and head for the Blue Grotto where we will get in little rowing boats and go in to the grotto. We get to the Blue Grotto (cave in incredible blue water), but the ...

... the quiet narrow streets of Mdina, identifying places, buildings, and monuments as we went. The view from the east wall of Mdina back over Malta is stunning, and I got a good feel for the actual size Malta. As small as it is! I had a look inside St Paul's Cathedral, and was stunned. St Paul's has a much nicer, less morbid feel to it than St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, particurlarly due to the blue in the painted dome ceilings. I also ...

Yes I am back from Malta. I have had the best holiday ever in my life! The hotel was absolutely brilliant. The weather has been nice and hot apart from Wednesday night with thunderstorms but then on, it has been very hot and sunny. Here is what I have been doing on my holidays. Tuesday 8th August - Arrived at Birmingham Airport at 12pm and hanged round in the Executive Lounge for a few hours before flying off to Malta at 3pm. Flight to Mlata was smooth and no ...

... full of high rises and European tourists, then Gozo is its Dahab counterpart. The smaller island has no skyscrapers and can be crossed in an hour. Its rocky coast is dramatic and the surrounding waters are a piercing turquoise. Getting there, though, is a bit more complicated. We hired another cab driver to take us to the ferry and he wasn't happy. Apparently this is a long and arduous journey, all thirty minutes of it, and he wasn't having a good day. He agreed ...