Santa Martha Hostel Marsalforn

... We sat out on our balcony which looked upon the walls of the city and the quay. Bustling horse and carriages trotted smartly back and forth. The road going up the hill is steep, but these horses are strong and fit, pulling with little effort. They really fly.
We boarded our bus with no security issues( like aforementioned places) and started our tour. I know nothing of Malta, other than ...

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

... boiling anger and she left her parents in no uncertain terms concerning her feelings of abandonment. Managed to bribe the children to walk the 40 minutes back to the ship by offering them half the bus fare it would have cost us. Olivia spent hers on chocolate and well you don’t even need to guess what the boys did with theirs.

Palma de Mallorca

This is the administrative centre of the Balearic Islands and was warm and ...

... have the best cakes. I treated myself to a Blackcurrant cheesecake which took me to heaven for those few minutes. It was flavourful, light, creamy, in a word, AWESOME!! Most tourists, would probably have spent a couple of hours in Mdina probably, but I loved it so much that I ended up staying about half of the day there. Of course, that was also due to the fact that I left the ...

... gauge before you go, you might want to look at any damages before you go, you might want to look at .... You get the idea. The rentals place looked like a car hire graveyard if you ask me!!! Every single car in there was bumped, scratched, dented or bashed about in some way - seriously not one single undamaged car in there - hmmm, lets see how it is driving here. Well, the rules ...

... looked excellent except that R was not in the mood for fish so we decided against lunch here. Instead we found a fruit stall and bought a 1/4th watermelon, which we ate sitting in the harbour. In the market, as is customary for us, we bought a Maltese replica bus and also a fridge magnet of the 'Eye of Osiris', an ancient symbol of protection against evil. You would see this symbol just about everywhere in Malta and very prominently on every luzzu ...

... to Valletta now and knowing my way around a bit, it is great and I am falling more in love with the city all the time. Seeing Christine again was fantastic, wow not seeing her for 27 years and then twice in 4 days! She seemed so happy to have a visitor and we chatted the next few hours away with ease. I still find it difficult to think Christine has not left the convent for 18 years now but I am not going to harp on it. I was filling her in with what I had done in that 18 ...

... here. The island is strongly Catholic, due to the arrival via shipwreck of St. Paul in around 60 AD. Oddly enough he was on his way to being tried as a heretic and only stayed on the island for 9 months or so. Just goes to show that we all have the potential to change the course of history, whether we realize it or not. Lucky for me, January in Malta was the warmest it's been in 84 years. It's been mostly sunny, with temperatures generally between 50-68F ...

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Today we went to Hagar Qim and Mnajdra temples. They date back between 3600 B.C. and 2500 B.C. I thought they were amazing. Just think of how huge the rocks are and how these people in that day and age without the kind of knowledge we have about physics today, were able to move such huge rocks and put holes in them. The heaviest rock there was 20 tons. They also carved out doors into these megalithic rocks. The design of the temple seemed ...