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Published: January 14th 2007
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Did you think Malta would look like this??
This is Sliema where we stayed. Its very touristy, but very nice! Well its official, of all the European Counties we have visited during this last 12 months, Malta is the hands down winner for our fave.
The people are the friendliest, the beaches are the bluest, the weather was the warmest and the food was the tastiest. Hows that for a good rap hey, well they deserve it.
First of all let me say that it was nothing at all like the picture I had in my head of what Malta would be like. In some parts like Sliema where we stayed, it reminded us of queenslands sunshine coast, it was so commercialised and geared towards tourism, and the development thats going on there is unbelievable. Then there´s the parts like Valetta that remain mostly untouched and are heritage listed so they cant be touched. There´s so much history there, infact we visited a temple that dates back older then the egyption pyramids!! Hows that for old.
Anyway, we spent most of the time walking up and down the beach, and did a day trip to the Blue Grotto and the temples on the other side of the island. We ran into a guy trying to sell us timeshare, and after convincing
The great Explorer
Micky exploring the rock pools. us that if we sat through just an hours talk then we could have a free harbour cruise and dinner for 2, we agreed. So, we lapped up the free meal on our last night and ate enough to feed us for a couple of weeks. Obviously we didnt buy into the timeshare, as it turns out, we had to be able to fly back to malta each year for the next 35 years.....something we couldnt quite commit to, thats a little far to come from Aus each year. The salesman had already figured out we were time wasters just after the freebies, but it paid off, hehehe.
We went to the movies for the first time since we left home, as it was in english and only cost $2 (malta Lira) a sweet bargain (compared to londons 15 pound tickets) and just generally enjoyed the laid back atmosphere.
We are now currently in spain, and boy do we have a story for you.....you´ll have to wait for the next blog for that one though, but its an absolute shocker, so it´ll be worth the wait.
Til then, take care xxx
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