Canifor Hotel St Pauls Bay St. Paul's Bay

... 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

We drove four hours from Positano to Rome to catch the ship. Chris kindly drove the family and the expanding luggage to the port and headed back into Rome to drop off the rental car (it was supposed to be dropped off at the port, but is a public holiday in Italy and the office was shut). He was fairly sure where the Avis office, in the center of Rome, was situated and knew it shut at 1pm. However having driven to all the Piazza's in Rome and around ...

... history of Malta, and head back on the bus to the ship before 2:30.

At dinner Jenny tells us that she and nine other people were abandoned by their tour guide in Malta, so they ended up taking a cab back to the boat. I doubt the parents would have thought to do that if they were lost; we probably would have ended up yelling at each other and in the process get robbed. I am so lucky to have survived another day on this trip.

Malta is beautiful. Everywhere you look, the Mediterranean sea is shining there, inviting you to take a dip. And when you're not being mesmerised by the beautiful blue waters, you're looking at the hundreds of historical sites and old, old buildings around the country. Not to mention the one church that Malta has for each of the 365 days of the year! It's hard to imagine how they can fit so much to do on to one tiny little island.

Not having been on a ...

... J Végül meg strandoltunk egyet és még a komphoz visszafele vacsoráztunk Victoriában, ahol nagyon illetlen módon kifiguráztuk a falon lévő nagymester-képeket, mert mindegyik vagy kancsal volt, vagy nagyon érdekes arcot vágott. Voltunk hal és bolhapiacon, ahol csak olyan ruhákat vettünk, amiket itt minden gond nélkül hordunk, de otthon eszünkbe se jutna felvenni egy harisnya, vagy egy póló nélkül. Hétfőn, amíg Veráék a katedrálist nézték Vallettában, bementem a holt ...

... full of old English buses from the 50's and 60's, but because of the EU, they will be soon got rid of, so a must do, is to go for a ride in one, and €0.47, you can go along way. Sliema, St Juliens and St Paul's Bay Around five years ago, we were going to dive in Malta as they have some incredible wreck dives. We were going to stay at one of these three places, and in some ways, I'm glad we didn't. These places were not our style. Holiday resort ...

... I took to Ghajn Tuffieha, and I jumped off in Bugibba's small terminus. From the onset, I could tell this would probably be the least memorable place I would visit in Malta. The town is the biggest tourist development on the island, and there was nothing to see but an unattractive sprawl of concrete hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops, filled with middle aged British tourists baring as much disgusting old sunburnt flesh as ...

... so pleased Herod and aroused such irrational lust in him that he promised her anything she desired. Herodias prompted her daughter to ask for the death of John the Baptist. Herod granted her wish and John was killed. We spent the rest of the day walking around the cobbled streets of Valetta, the country capital, taking in a few beers, a decent meal and lots of views of the Sea. You can see the Sea from ...

... the pre-historic monolith temples of Hagar Qim. Past Clapham Junction (as exciting here as it is in England) and through Buskett Gardens (apparently a forest but only slightly greener than the rest of the land around). This involved avoiding some shooters hunting birds with shotguns, skirting a quarry or two and walking for maybe 6-8 kilometres through sparsely ...