Seabreeze Hotel
Travel Blogs from Birzebbuga
In Malta
Malta! Here we are, finally, after what Mum's worked out to be about 34 hours of travelling, from the first house to the last. The plane travel was pretty uneventful, except for a spilled glass of wine… We did some wandering around Dubai Airport but didn’t buy anything (even though I tried on some sunnies, again) (really need new ones …
Freeport
Woke about 7am this morning (about 3pm at home), sun beating on the back of the strategically-closed curtains, the room already warming up. Breakfast downstairs in the very quiet hotel restaurant – the matriarch of the family that runs the hotel died yesterday morning and they've minimised operations here as a result. Breakfast was a couple …
Valletta
Big day today. Yesterday we took the plunge and committed to the extra cost for a kettle in our room, so today began properly: with a coffee. After breakfast we got ourselves ready for the day and caught the bus to Valetta. ½ hour trip for 47c each, lovely. Bus got more and more full, the closer we got to Valetta, and even bypassed some stops to …
Marsaxlokk
Big day walking today – oh boy, big day walking. Well, perhaps not on the scale of Casablanca, but still a big day, all the way to Marsaxlokk (Marsa-schlock) for lunch, then back.
We followed the coastline, mainly sticking to footpaths or the edges of roads, asking directions once. Found some beautiful little coves, filled with …
Waiting for Columba
Well, a bit of a Nothing Day today, with it spent sitting on my bed, alternately getting into Topic 1 of the uni semester and reading a (very tedious) book by Jean M Auel. Mum went for a walk in the morning but I stayed back, preferring to rest my feet after the pounding they took yesterday. She wasn't gone long – too hot, she said.
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