Hotel Valentina Saint Julian's

... 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

... and was going to be towed. Had difficulty trying to communicate that we were sailing on a cruise - so when we return to Italy we may be maxed out in fines on the visa card and have to beg our way home!!!

We were certainly glad we did the cruises in the order we did, The Costa Pacific is only four months old, thus is new and gleaming. It has glass lifts in the in middle which ascend 12 stories all the way up to the retractable glass roof ...

... Maltese lunch and tucked in accordingly. After lunch we take a slow wander back to the car and decide to head over to the west of the island to a place called Dingli - it was always going to be a bit hit and miss as there are no main roads going there and as mentioned earlier, there is a distinct lack of road signs or indeed any signs at all in the countryside, so really its pot luck. John now gets the award for finding the most pot holed 'road' of the week ...

... the Christmas Eve service), open market (run by ex-pat Canadians; bought some wonderful dried figs), a tavern, a bakery (we ate our first purchase and had to go back for more), a carpenter, a blacksmith and shepherds' grotto.   As the daylight faded, bonfires were lit at numerous locations throughout the village.  It was wonderous and magical. Mark and I had the opportunity to speak with the man who had conceived the idea of "Bethlehem at Ghajnsielem".  He noted that the ...

... read some past stories). Its fun to be around all of it and its yet another fun little weekly activity. third, The guys in the flat foundout/walked in on me doing yoga. A handfull asked me to show them and now we all get together and get a nice little yoga session going on. Then they go out and tell everyone that im some master... Lets just say im going to be leading classes of 35people in a couple of weeks(kidding... maybe). Its be nice to do some yoga when the weather gets ...

... white, and even though I'd been inside some pretty amazing churches during my time in Europe, nothing compared to what I felt here. It's very difficult to describe an energy like this, but rather something that has to be felt I think. I had a look around the interior for a while, noticing the missing paint on the dome which marked where the bomb had come through, before finding the small entrance to the sacristy where a replica of the bomb ...

... 10 77;не мест?:-)

Ах да...я говор 80;ла, что и хорон 80;ли их там же? вроде как и после смерт 80; нику ...

... Mercedes kind). What a beautiful city, a main pedestrian way was our destination. Bob wanted to show me a shop he had bought a few things at on their last stop, and he wanted to go into the St. Johns Cathedral. We stopped in a Mac Donald's ( I know, I know) to get bottles of water and headed to the shop first, where Bob bought an amazing Globe Desk set made of semi precious minerals form around the world. At least he paid ...

... lack of boundaries between towns. This country is so small, which at 320sq km includes the islands of Malta, Comino and Gozo, and the population is so concentrated that one town ends where another begins. Road signs simply define city limits. Rabat meets the walls of Mdina. The island's bus terminus divides Floriana from its neighbor, the capital Valletta. Palm-like trees line the road into Valletta. The cobblestone streets here seem even narrower than those in Rabat, especially ...