Marsalforn Guesthouse

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

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 ...

... duped by the online descriptions that make the walk into the city sound rough.<br><br> Our tour guide is a dowdy English woman who is wearing a flower print dress and speaks with a breathlessly nasal English accent. &#8220;Thish ish a shtashtue of Shaint Jamesh, and-a&#8230;.&#8221; she speaks like this as we follow her along the cobblestone streets lined with stone buildings. Our first stop is the Upper Baracca Gardens, a ...

... difficult to understand his viewpoint, 'no jesus died so that they could rise again'. So his statement was everybody who wasn't a Christian before Jesus came to earth are living now in heaven but everyone who isn't a Christian after Jesus died is heading to hell even though He died for everyone'...? What...? I pointed out John 10:16, (which is largely overlooked by the church as it goes against there teaching of control), 'And other sheep I ...

... award for civil gallantry, and I think they earned it.  I am not trying to diminish the significance of what London and the rest of England went through, but trying to impress how bad it was in Malta. Everyone knows about the Blitz and knows how bad it was, and I am trying to give people something with which to compare the Siege of Malta.  Since the island was under siege and being continuously bombed, it was difficult to find sufficient supplies, and they could not be imported ...

... to finish school in Decemb** 2009. I'll come out of Malta with SOME credit, not a lot but the exp**iences and friends are the real prize of this time. I was and still get a little depressed because my time h**e isn't directly productive(from the standpoint of advancing my care**), but I'm starting to realize more and more that life and the lessons of it are much more than just some classes and work exp**ience. Friends - Between April 28th and May 6th, Lucas Cox came ...

... alien as it is to our lives in Sydney I have to see she was one of the happiest people I have met in a long time. The next 2 hours seemed to race by as we talked about when we were young and what memories we have of that time. I had hundreds of questions on her life and what she did from day to day and how it was in the convent. There were 14 nuns that lived there ranging from 88 years old to the newest member of their family, a young 17 year old girl who had joined just 2 weeks ago. She ...

It was with much anticiapation that we left Bugibba on Friday morning, headed for Malta's other island, Gozo. We hopped on a bus from Bugibba, and after another picturesque bus journey, we arrived at the Gozo Ferry terminal in Cirkewwa. After a wait of about half an hour we made it onto the ferry, and I was quite impressed. I was expecting a cargo-style barge like the one to Bruny Island, yet I found this ferry more like The Spirit of Tasmania. I spent most of the 45 minute journey ...

... without meeting a real Tabone. The lady living above us all this time turns out to be a Tabone, and on introducing myself, I was invited into her flat to sit and talk for a while. Sadly, there's no way to tell if we're actually related, and the closest relative I could possibly find would be like a 12th cousin or something. So we departed Malta for Tunisia with only the knowledge that we'd found one place in the world where the people look a little bit like me.

... the 7 day passes in the guide book otherwise all our missed stops could start adding up. Valletta is a picturesque city. Some amazing views of the surrounding area from the upper gardens and the lower gardens. Mostly everything was closed since it was Sunday and we didn't make it to Valletta until 6PM but we got to just walk around and see the buildings and the city wall. They had some sort of celebration and had some loud fireworks going off in the bay. Not ...