White Dolphin St. Paul's Bay

We arrived this morning, everyone on the top deck to witness our entry into port. It was so windy up top that one almost fell over. I enjoyed playing Winged Victory while watching the coastline.
The harbor is fantastic, ancient fortified walls, forts, escarpments, limestone, cobblestones, towers, ships. The colors hurt the eye they are so brilliant. From the sea to the sky to the boats and wooden ...

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

... his home there. Every day at 12.00pm the military perform a cannon fire salute, Robyn reckons she had prepared herself for it, but nearly jumped out of her skin when it actually happened. When we visited another church with the largest dome in the city we meet a lovely 86 year old Maltese man sitting as a guardian at the door. He found we were from NZ and proceeded to tell us how he had fought with the British against the Germans and Italians in ...

... without her. She speaks no English and I’m starting to envision the scenario when she is left behind. She didn’t want to come with us because she was tired after the Montserrat tour and she was already mad at Juju for bringing her. I run back to the cathedral where Juju last saw her and I come back without finding her. Somehow she just shows up a few minutes later. Later we head to a museum and into a theater to hear ...

... has evolved into, nor Trinidad's either, from what I hear. This one's definitely for kids, and they rise to the occasion, all dressed up in allegorical costume. The floats may be a bit pre-fab and lacking in individuality, but the community spirit behind it is good, and it may in fact be closer in fact to the original than any of them, hard to say now that Rome is only reinstituting its own after a long period of dormancy. It's ...

... r, hogy mennyire jól érezték magukat és köszönnek mindent. Máskor meg nem érkezik senki, és bőven van időm mászkálni a szigeten (bár a legtöbb érdekes helyet már bejártam), meg persze strandolni. Mindenki, aki aggódik, hogy nem vagyok elég barna, megnyugtatom, az vagyok (legalábbis a karjaim). Most egy kis pihi jön, kevesebb a vendég, de azert vannak. Bár, ahogy ismerem magam, úgyis történik valami extra. Azt meg majd úgyis megírom. Addig is pápá.

... is too rough to enter. Hagar Qim (temple structure dating about 3500BC) is also closed for restoration , but there seems to be some tourists there when we drive by?? Go to the Ghingli Cliffs, beautiful but the whole island is shrouded in a weird haze and can't see much. Buy some home made wine for EUR5, and a couple of prickly pear fruit to eat. Interesting. Instead of Hagar Qim we ...

... we all have elements of both our parents in our makeup, both in physical appearance and personality. It got me thinking, as these things tend to do. Whilst it is fact we have little say in the physical aspects we inherit from our parents, I wondered what sort of control we had over the personality traits we adopt. Obviously there is both good and bad elements in everyone's personality (including our parents) and the idealistic view is that children will inherit the better ...

... expecting us, and gave us an extremely warm greeting when we arrived. This guy was a legend. He gave us peanuts with our beer, got us anything we wanted, and provided lovely chat. He told us about his restaraunt, grand children, and all sorts of other Maltese things. I loved hanging out there throughout our time on Gozo. Monday morning we departed Gozo, heading back to the now seemingly huge Maltese mainland. I thoroughly enjoyed Gozo, with only the ...

... of fun *nd shen*****ns going on! Tod*y slept in *nd once D*vid (*k* ForestBoy) *nd Nicky finished *t work off to the Blue Grotto for * swim (*nd I got stung by * se* urchin!) followed by * visit to the oldest temple in the world!....the 5000 ye*r old Mn*jdr*! Who*h! L*ter we c*ught the bus into V*llett* for * w*nder *round the c*pit*l before coming home for *n incredible home cooked fe*st! Up *t five tomorrow morning (**rggh - it's *lre*dy *fter ...