Blogs from St Julians, Malta, Malta, Europe
April 15th 2012
In case you don't realize why I'm here, I'm here for a week-long management training program called 'Take Off!'. 12 of us from various EC centers were selected to come - EC Central, Malta, Boston, Toronto, New York, London, and USA (me!). Throughout the week we received training on various performance-related skills and were split into two teams to develop a project and present it to members of the board. Our team's project was to find a way to target EC's staff, students, agents, in communicating our 4 core values. I'm not a fan of more abstract tasks like this, but in the end our team one and it was a fairly well-thought-out proposal. It nonetheless caused major stress. The program itself consisted of interactive lectures on things like self-awareness, unlocking creativity, time management, etc. The ... read more
March 15th 2009
Back in March, Scott and I took at long weekend to Malta (I was between jobs at BP and Capgemini). We flew out on easyjet, not that pleasant, to Malta which is just off Italy in the med. We got some good weather for our 4 night stay in St Julian, a few bays around from the walled capital of Valletta. One of the days we did a hop-on-hop-off bus around the south eastern parts of the island of Malta. Valletta was really pretty especially the three cities across from the bay; beautiful old house and super yachts. After that we drove through vineyards to a quant fishing village; Marsaxlokk, the bay was fill of little fishing boats with big eye’s on them to protect the fisherman. Then we drove up the west coast visiting some ... read more
February 26th 2009
El 2 de Marzo es feriado en Libia. Como este año caía en lunes, prácticamente se podía hacer un fin de semana largo. Hasta último momento no teníamos planes, pero ante la insistencia de Mariela no hicimos una escapadita a Malta Malta es un país que está en medio del Mediterráneo y está compuesto por 2 grandes islas: Malta y Gozo. Desde el 2004 es parte de la Unión Europea. El vuelo desde Trípoli es bastante corto (menos de 1 hora) pero muy placentero. Volamos en Air Malta, una aerolínea que presta un muy buen servicio. En el aeropuerto nos encontramos con otros amigos que también viajaban: los Perona y los Stelzer, con lo que el viaje se puso mejor aún. Ximen... read more
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Published: March 10th 2011Europe » Malta » Malta » St Julians
September 23rd 2006
The trip to Malta came about simply because I had entered a prize draw through a coffee promotion at work by punching in codes into a website, and entering myself into 5 draws for a pair of tickets to a European destination. Well, somebody up there likes me, because I scooped a pair of return tickets to Malta, and almost instantly, I was boarding a BA flight to Valletta, and arriving with the task of getting from the airport to the hotel armed with a basic map, and no other sense of direction. This proved to be the hardest task of the entire trip, really, despite how simple the map made it look, and once we'd arrived, after taking numerous diversions, and straying well off course, the resort of St. Julians looked lively enough to spend ... read more
