Howard Johnson Meditteranea St. Paul's Bay

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 ...

Sleeping on the upper bunk of the ship's cabin reminds me of having an MRI. When I went in for the procedure a month ago, I was rolled under a flat plate two inches above my face and my head was secured to the table so I couldn&#8217;t move for twenty minutes. I don&#8217;t think I got over that terrifying experience because even though the cabin&#8217;s ceiling was two feet over me I felt claustrophobic. When we rise at 6:00am from ...

... the sea. It was pretty amazing to walk around narrow streets dating back before the US was even a country. The city gets a name from Jean Parisot de la Valette who was a French nobleman from Provence. I wonder if he had all that attitude I found there. He helped defend Malta against the Turks in the Great Siege of 1565 and that was enough to have the place named for him. So he can't be all that bad I guess.<br><br>And speaking of French people ...

... br>Aber auch die vielen historischen Gebäude machen Malta wirklich attraktiv. Schließlich ist hier das vermutlich älteste Gebäude der Welt gefunden worden (Tarxien Tempel ca. 3250 v.Chr). Die Geschichte ist wirklich spannend und auf keien Fall langweilig. Den größten Einfluß auf das heutige Malta hatte auf jeden Fall die britische Kolonialzeit (1815-1964). Das fängt bei der Amtsprache an und geht über den Linksverkehr bis zum Frühstück (bääääh).<br><br>Und zum Schluß die vielen ...

... tmentem a vizsgán. Most a rendezvények id&#337;szaka van. Volt borfesztivál 4 estén át Vallettában, ahol 10 euróért annyi bort kóstolhattunk, amennyit akartunk. Tényleg egész jók a helyi borok, nem csak mondják. Csak nem túl nagy a választék. A fesztiválon is voltak olasz borok, amiket a máltai pincészetnek palackoztak, de azok is finomak. 23-án jön a folytatás Gozon. Pénteken az egyik szálloda tartott partnerpartit, aztán hétf&#337;n volt a sziget tört ...

... Dede, Banana, Max and Jazz. Dede EL CONQUISTADOR de Argentina Dede Banana Max Jazz

... or there but I am really happy with how I am picking up the language. I have always known a lot of words but putting them together in phrases is the tough bit. Every now and then I will say something not quite right and they would all crack up, but they seem very happy that I am making such an effort and I am getting a lot out of it. Well air shows are pretty popular in Malta and we should have seen it coming but if ever I was to get a good display on the fact there are ...

... the temple was great. Ggantija roughly translates to giant, and straight away I could see where the name comes from. A giant had to have built these temples, which are around 5500 years old, and the oldest in Malta, and possibly the world!! It was great to see them, and my mind boggles at how such large stones were fit into position so long ago. They were stunning. It's too hard for me to conceptualise the actual age of such things. I thought 200 ...

... area is the growth capital of the island and you really should come to check it out. I came, I saw Valletta's walls from afar, took a couple of photos and got on the right bus to town. Well and truly over Maltese buses by then I can tell you... And with that I was off to Gozo, predictably on another yellow bus. Maybe some diving, maybe something else. We shall ...