Bella Vista Qawra

I've just popped over to Malta for a day &amp; 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).<br><br>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).<br><br>Anyway, I'll keep this blog short so ciao for now!<br><br>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&#8217;t even need to guess what the boys did with theirs.<br><br>Palma de Mallorca<br><br>This is the administrative centre of the Balearic Islands and was warm and ...

... to begin disembarkation. Our tour is almost the last one to be called and we walk out the door to the fourth floor deck, put on the stickers with our bus and tour number, swipe our cruise ID cards and board the bus. From the ship it&#8217;s hard to tell how to enter the walled city but once we are sitting inside the bus we can see a ramp that enters the city. A lot of people are walking on the paved sidewalk beside the road and I ...

... you believe that I got that condescending horrible finger wag from some old French tourist? I was taking a picture of Boris the Bear on top of the city walls and there he was standing with his sniveling wife. They both gave me a look that was absolute derision and when I was stuffing the bear back in my backpack the French guy gave me the finger wag. Up yours buddy. I can do what I want and this isn't even your country. He said something to ...

... the pub empty. I found out that things get started very late like in Greece. Oh well, those late night hours are somewhat behind me, so back to the room for a nightcap at the bar in the lobby. Sunday I hopped on the bus again for the ferry dock to find the open air hop on hop off bus that will take me around the island for a 3-4 hour tour. I sat on top, the weather was sunny about 55, but one going and when the sun went behind a cloud it was a little chilly. I toured the ...

... fakultatív programra akarnak menni. Ami tök jó, mert én is megyek mindenfelé, de ugyan azon az útvonalon és fordítok rendületlenül. Múlt héten egyik nap pl. egy yachton kellett lennem egy családdal és magyaráznom, hogy épp merre haladunk el a sziget körül, meg fürdenem a tengerben minden öbölnél, ahol megálltunk (a negyediknél abbahagytam a számolást). Ez a hét is elég kaotikus. Amikor épp nem fordítok, akkor a reptéren vagyok, vagy szállodában találkozok utasokkal ...

... that I said goodbye to her today, but I did not want to let sorrow become a memory that I would relate to my time here so I stayed in a positive mood. Like all my cousins I have a deep love for Christine, and I am pleased I got the opportunity to gain a much better understanding of the life she has chosen. She asked me to write to her when I got home. Now we are talking about snail mail here (not email) so hand writing a letter was something I had not done in ...

... car) but the driving style over there is something to be admired, i dont think they need to take a driving lesson or test to get a licence. The hotel we stayed in was not too bad but the locals know it as Fawlty Towers (no need to explain to the brits) it had its own pool and a nice bar. the reception was ok once you finally found your room, there was access for wheelchairs and the lifts worked. the ...

... We may it about two-thirds of the way back where the bus started taking silly detours, and ultimately came to a halt on steep street behind a whole swag of other buses and cars in the same predicament. We asked the bus what the problem was and he said flooding. Ha! What! It had only been raining for half a day? I guess it rarely rains in Malta and then when it does rain, the drains are equipped for it! I made the on the spot decision to ditch the stinking hot bus and go for it ...

... about who built the temple and what it was used for and no proof for any of it. It was fascinating but as a math major I was a bit bothered by the lack of evidence. How did they even know the place was an ancient temple at all? The best part of the tour was an explanation of The Sleeping Lady, a tiny statue that was found inside one of the caverns. The tiny figurine is amazingly expressive; she invokes as many questions as the Mona Lisa. Her large hips and ...