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Travel Blogs from St. Paul's Bay
Pour récupérer le reste de notre séjour à Malte
On est allé souper dans un très bon restaurant qui s'appelle Parapett: un des meilleurs repas de notre voyage. Ce coin de la ville est bourré de jeunes qui sont là pour faire la fête. C'est un bar après l'autre avec de la musique à tue-tête et des jeunes mur à mur; ...
Mdina & Rabat
... streets and cobblestone alleyways, twisting and turning. Beautiful.
We sat for a while in the shade and ate some honey-and-nut thing that we'd bought yesterday, and I rested my feet. In thongs today, to try to alleviate the rash around my ankles, but now there's blisters forming between my toes! Can't win.
Anyway skipped lunch and walked through Rabat, a big circular route that eventually brought us out near the bus ...
On my way to spring break!!
... entire tourist Rome all over again. It's been exhausting but fun, such a bummer that the weather is so ****** but oh well. I even went to mass at the Vatican yesterday which was nuts. It was all in Italian and it was nuts because I could actually understand some of it! Even weirder (yes, dad this is weird) is I told me dad that it was in Italian and he started reciting the 'Our Father' to me in Italian because apparently he had to learn it in Catholic School.
Another ...
Was bleibt von Malta im Gedächtnis?
... Kirchen, Kapellen und Heiligen-Statuen überall. Laut Statistik sind 98% der Malteser römisch-katholisch. Dieser Umstand ist wohl auch verantwortlich, dass Ehescheidung nicht möglich sind und "oben ohne" baden überall verboten ist. Komischerweise sind fast alle Kirchen und Ähnliches außen mit Glühbirnen bestückt, so dass man sie abends von weitem sieht. Tagsüber hat es aber doch oft eher etwas von Karussell. Und was ich persönlich total schade finde, ist, dass die meisten ...
Malta
... princes from Sicily, Italy.
to 1530 - Christian Spanish rule from Zaragoza, Spain.
to 1798 - ruled by Christian Knights of St John, leased from Spain. 1565 - withstood naval siege by Ottoman Turkish Empire.
to 1800 - rule by Napoleon from Paris, France.
to 1964 - British rule from London, UK.
1964 - ...