Mavina St. Paul's Bay

... locally produced. We walked along the water, admiring the little fishing boats, all painted bright blue and yellow and green, each having a pair of eyes painted on the bow.
We made it back to the ship in plenty of time to dress for dinner. As we left the port after dark, the forts and walls were lit up. Simply magical.
Will try to send some pics with this.
Tomorrow a sea day. home Thursday.

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

... might have even had a slight sway to them. (He reckons that was just the roll of the ship! – or the eighty year old American lady that had a hold on him).

The Cabin steward knew the meaning of service, you could hardly leave the room before he was in again with replacement towels or tidying. Each night when the kids arrived back at their room he had made a white towel into some kind of animal. These workers get so little time off ...

... to begin disembarkation. Our tour is almost the last one to be called and we walk out the door to the fourth floor deck, put on the stickers with our bus and tour number, swipe our cruise ID cards and board the bus. From the ship it’s hard to tell how to enter the walled city but once we are sitting inside the bus we can see a ramp that enters the city. A lot of people are walking on the paved sidewalk beside the road and I ...

Schnell aus dem Flugzeug, in den Bus, zum Koffer und dann weg. So ist der normale Gang wenn man gerade gelandet ist, noch dazu mit fast einer Stunde Verspätung. Aber irgendwie sieht das hier ganz anders aus. Eher zögernd steigen die Leute in den Bus, aber nicht ohne vorher noch den Foto zu zücken und ein paar Bilder zu machen. Ist der Flughafen in Malta etwa so schön? Naja nicht wirklich, der Grund ist eher das Feuerwerk hier. Echt toll, so was hab ich noch nie gesehen ...

... airport was at 6:45, so we'd miss breakfast. Our tour picked us up and we headed to our first village. We started at this church that had the 3rd largest unsupported dome in Europe. During WWII someone bombed the church and it penetrated the dome but didn't explode. No one was hurt and they considered this a miracle. There was a replica of the bomb inside. How cool is that? Then we stopped at a craft store and I got a ...

... going to be a slow night but instead decided to play spoons with about 15people and after having to teach/translate the instructions in 6languages we had a great time! Then decided to go out again to pacevile and had a fun night celebrating one of american girls' 21st birthday. -Sunday- What i had been waiting for all week long, and what i had been reading about for the longest time. We( a huge group from the residence) all got together and took a bus down ...

... have a swim in the bay however, it was something I wanted to tell my mum and dad that I had done...swam in St Paul's Bay! Unfortunately the water was not the cleanest either but I don't want to take away from the experience, it was a good feeling to swim in the waters of the bay that my parents often talk about and where I had swum the last time I was 30 years ago. The air show was good and we all went for a walk along the outskirts of the bay afterwards. I managed to see ...

... which was a very apt name given the colour of the water. After my all too short boat trip finished, I began to make my way 3km up the coast to my next destination, the megalithic temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra. As I left the parking lot at Wied iz-Zurrieq a taxi driver stopped me and asked if I was getting a bus. I informed him that I was walking to the temples, to which he replied I must go with him, as the temples closed at 12.30pm and they were 4 miles ...

... during WWII. I only went inside a couple but I was glad I did. The St John's Co-Cathedral is without doubt the most beautiful church I have been in and despite having to pay each time, I would visit again and again. Built in the centre of a newly founded capital after the Great Siege of 1565, in which much of the island was laid to ...