Amazing Hi After reading your colourfull discription of this place I realize we were fools to give it back after 1945. Had a good chuckle at your discription of Ludwig and must comment on Ed's Lederhosen outfit very becoming. Glad you are still in great form with KEYS, WALLET etc Matt. Got your Turkey cards yesterday Nan will be having a talk with you about one of them. Cheers keep them coming N/G
You know the amount of fun you are both having depresses me.
I strongly recommend that you enact poor prose, laziness and the urge to sleep in the next week so people like myself (i.e. those who are currently still at work and have no prospect of leaving their desk for the next ) no longer feel the urge to run out the office door with abandon and jump on the next cruise ship to anywhere.
Alternatively I could continue living vicariously through your travels (note; this idea takes less effort, thus for the moment is more appealing).
Raj
Comments from a Malteser I really enjoyed reading your blog about my country, you cracked me up. Its true we have a lot to improve on, and the pot holes are never-ending, but we also have a lot to offer. So im sorry for the 'truepathfinder' who had a bad experience in Malta - hope you tried to venture away from the Bugibba and St. Julians area, the rest of the island(s) is really not that bad. Just a word of advice - if anyone is thinking of visiting in July or August, its peak time and very hot, so you have been warned! (if you cannot come at another time at least splash on a lot of sunscreen, or you will be walking around looking like lobsters).
PS: The photos are not an illusion, but as I said before, July and August r not the greatest time, so that greenery could look very brown in summer. Come to Malta and venture away from the hotels, there's a lot to explore!!
entertaining blog I loved reading your blog on your visit to Malta. Full of insights. It may be true that I have a rose tinted view of the baroque city of Valletta, but I agree completely when you say every street corner is a photo op. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Take care. Aldo
Exhausted You Know after visualizing your adventures here and in Malta we were exhausted, Sounded wonderful.The opera house must have marvellous even if you could not dig the words, Man! (street cred speak). Keep the blogs coming they are great.
I need global cred... FABULOUS photos guys- not just these but previous blogs too. Can I borrow them to stick up on my office wall so my colleagues think I'm extraordinarily well-travelled...?
(Actually I'm not really asking, just letting you know what I'm doing :))
K
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Flee in the opposite direction Great photos, but Malta is the pits. It's dirty, a dog's toilet, broken roads, pavements, rude people, terrible food, boring to the point of wishing it had sunk to the bottom of the sea and the Church has the people under its heel to such an extent they cannot breathe. Dozens of people were ill when I was there and gave me a terrible bug which took twelve weeks to get rid of when I returned home.
I beg you, if you're tempted by these photos, think twice.. they're illusions.
Fantastic Photo's Wow, Malta does look stunning. Why would people want to leave.
Oh and Matthew you do look very slim in all the photo's. I think I will have to visit that pizza place when I visit. Leaves Jenny Craig for dead.
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The Best Dressed Never mind about not dressing well for the opera I really don't think people would have been too upset, you guys look great in anything.
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What a night! That woman(?) looks like she's been drawn by a cartoonist! - please tell me she looked better in real life... then again, surely anything would have been better than seeing Roseanne in her lingerie! Oh I wish I was there to party it up with you two!
That sounds so cool! Sweden looks amazing! Thanks so much for the postcard, it was a lovely surprise - I didn't know ice hotels even existed and half thought it was a joke but now I've seen the photos that prove it! You guys crack me up... Poor Ed! At least you could write a nice lymeric about the whole thing: "There was a young man called Ed, who kept falling and hitting his head, you might want to laugh, but don't be so fast, Karma will get you next I bet"!
Those poor people in that house! Hi Matt and Ed! I can't believe our family's managed to take yet another photo of the front of that house, but it's something we all must do. The residents must be feeling like royalty by now! Love reading about your adventures, keep 'em coming! Love Jess.
A Trip To Our Old Baronia Home ( 61) Wow! another of your trips that would have taken at least a week condensed into just two days. It would have been beautifull in the summer, but it must have been great anyway. Where to next? The lighter evenings will soon arrive making touring much better. Thanks for the well written journal Ed.
I'm on my way The Jewellery thing has me a little concerned, it is a far cry from the purple umbrella and the mary poppins impersonation. Mummy to the rescue I am on the next flight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh My Goddddddddddddddd How do you keep up the pace of it all. I get exhausted just reading what you both get up to. When I visit is it going to be as hectic? I don't know if I would cope.
Love the photo's. It is good to see that you are coping so well with the cold Ed. Who would have thought that you would have even contemplated staying in an Ice Hotel. Love Mum xx
Miss you both
Exhausting. Wow! You did in two days what we would have needed a week to complete followed by another week to recover sounded really marvellous.I don't think all reindeers are lazy what about that lot that get around with Santa on Xmas eve?
Now I Know why. What a couple of characters you are for fogetting things, we thought us oldies were bad enough. I had a few mates in the army who came from Leicester from your descriptions I've finally found out the reason why they joined up.
Wow! What an awesome weekend! (I can't stop giggling at you smacking your head into the glass! I trust there was suitable guffawing from your fellow passengers.)
Phonographic Nan
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Hi After reading your colourfull discription of this place I realize we were fools to give it back after 1945. Had a good chuckle at your discription of Ludwig and must comment on Ed's Lederhosen outfit very becoming. Glad you are still in great form with KEYS, WALLET etc Matt. Got your Turkey cards yesterday Nan will be having a talk with you about one of them. Cheers keep them coming N/G