Porto Azzurro Aparthotel 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

... the madness of the old Souk. The Souk is a rabbit warren of narrow streets lined with shops off all kinds, with every owner vying for custom. We walked past yet another vendor yelling &#8220;hello American, Dutch&#8221; and when didn&#8217;t reply pointed to Ryan and said &#8220;Mr Bean, Hey you Mr Bean, come and buy&#8221; we laughed and laughed and on our way back through pointed and referred to him as Mr Bean again. Chris tried to ...

... 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 ...

... from Europe and will never see the island away from the resort areas or Valletta. It's a shame because this place is pretty amazing as are the people. Help is never more than a question away and people go out of their way to make sure you get where you need to go. On my way back to the hostel I got off the bus where I thought I had boarded it and ended up wandering around for 30 minutes. Let's just say I was exploring new streets rather than ...

... es uns eher an den Felsstrand, der deutlich leerer ist. <br><br>Aber natürlich interessiert uns, wie Malta sonst so aussieht. Deswegen geht's mit dem Bus erstmal zu einer der Hauptsehenswürdigkeiten Maltas: Die Blaue Grotte. Das Wasser ist unglaublich, von blau bis türkis und total klar. Auf den Bildern ist das nur schwer einzufangen, aber Angi hat es doch irgendwie geschafft.<br><br>Danach zieht's uns in die Hauptstadt Valetta. Aber die ist einen eigenen Eintrag wert :)<br>

... Morocco has some similarities but that seems more akin to Spain and even Mexico than the actual Middle East, i.e. adobe (an Arabic word via Egyptian). Valletta is the main town on modern Malta, though increasingly it's more the tourist center than the business center, dearer in price and affection. Still, unless you're looking for a Canary Islands-type generic beach hotel across the bay at Sliema, this is where you come. The earliest ...

... Vallettában, háromszor Mdinában és a Blue Grottonál) és már volt olyan, hogy egy hétig nem jutottam le a strandra... Ó, borzalom&#61514;. A programokon csak fordítanom kell a helyi angolos idegenvezet&#337; mellett, meg néha kiegészítem valamivel, amit mástól hallottam. Volt már olyan is, hogy a svédekkel voltunk együtt, úgyhogy a mikrofonba nem is beszéltünk angolul (a magyar anya-iraki apa-Stockholmban született gyerek család meg ellen&#337;rzött ...

... walls and very dry. We are very lucky that all of us are quite active - Hank and Suzanne are celebrating their 50 somethingth wedding anniversary, but must have married when they were 5 or 6. First stop Mdina, an ancient walled town not too far our of Valetta. We wander round here dodging the big HAL tour groups who have arrived at the same time. It is a beautiful town, full of golden ...

... a hour in the end. It was near the hottest part of day, no surprise then that I saw a snake! I was walking along the road towards Xaghra, close into the house's walls, so as to keep in the small amount of shade as much as possible. Then a snake popped out of the brush right in front of me. A big black one. It frightened the **** out of me! The black snake on the backdrop of the bright yellow sandstone was something out of a nightmare! We arrived ...

... round, S******y w*s * tour of the isl*nd - to the be*ch, to * be*utiful old fortified city *nd *long the cliffs for sunset, S******y night w*s out to il-forn *n incredible rest*ur*nt/*rt g*llery in old stone b*kery owned by the cr*zy *nd *m*zing Austri*n *rtist/chef/builder Clemens (www.birgu.com). Yesterd*y w*s * necess*ry sleep-in followed by lunch with M*tt *nd V*ness* *t the polo club *nd * drive *round some pretty fishing vill*ges. L*st ...