Hey, So I was getting bored of Brussels. It had been stiflingly hot for a couple of weeks (29 degrees and 90% humidity) and I decided that I needed to get out of town. I felt like going somewhere near the water, so I decided that Malta would be a great choice. I hopped on the train to the airport and after it picked me up I felt a little ill at ease. I was thinking to myself that it was odd that it was a double-decker train heading to the airport. I also thought it was odd that the TV [View Full Entry]

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Day 54 I arrived in Malta at some ridiculous hour with no baggage or sleep only to have to wait 1/2 hr for a bus and then another 1/2 hour for the next one to get me to my hostel. After negotiating the busy streets I managed to find the place I'd be living in for the next 2 weeks. My next mission was to get toiletries so I could shower lucky for me I had a change of clothes in my carry on so I didn't need to worry about a new wardrobe until maybe the next day. My first [View Full Entry]

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Day 67 Today I met Roger down at the ferry dock for our trip over to Gozo. Once we got there and had booked ourselves into the hostel we started to walk into the capital Vittiros. We didn't make it too far before catching a ride on one of the Gozo buses. Once in town we headed to the tourist office for maps and alist of things we could amuse ourselves with. Our first stop was to check out the main Cathedral in town. We didn't go inside but instead walk around the outside and visited all of the small craft [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Malta not really knowing what to expect, we had heard a lot about the tiny island nation but had no real conception of what it would actually be like. After some incredible views - Malta is actually 3 Islands: Malta, Gozo and Comino - from the plane as we flew in, our first impression was ... WIND! It was crazily windy as soon as we hopped off the plane, in the first 2-3 days we experienced some of the strongest, most forceful wind I’ve ever experienced (and I have been to Wellington and Chicago!). We had arranged a [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday was a sea day so we were able to relax on the ship after four straight days in a different port. Sort of the same old routine, get up, eat, walk around the ship, eat, check out some activities on the ship, eat, gamble, drink, and eat. On Wednesday we were docked in Valletta Malta for only four hours which was not enough time. We came into port around 2:00 PM and the view of the city and surrounding area was like a postcard. Limestone walls and buildings dominate the skyline. From the ship it is a short uphill [View Full Entry]

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My exams are all finished and I am sitting at the dining table at Auntie Catherine's house eating white chocolate off of a spoon. They spoil me! I can't believe I've left the castle! It makes me so so sad. Will reflect more later, as am dangerously sleep-deprived and pre-occupied with eating chocolate. [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Siguiendo con la política “Vacaciones para todos”, además de ver algunas iglesias también hubo entrenamientos para Ximena, Guiomar, Santino y Pedro. Las salidas fueron: * Mediterráneo Park. Un parque muy bonito donde vimos shows de loros, focas y delfines. Los loritos unos genios, andaban en moto, en auto y hacían carreras. Pedro le dio de comer a uno y luego pudimos sacar algunas fotos. Mariela, encantada, está pensando en comprar uno para educar… o será que extraña mucho a Norma??? Nop, los loros no hablan tanto je! [View Full Entry]

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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 ho [View Full Entry]

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I decided to go to Malta for my February break this time. I went with my friend Christina for five days. It was an amazing place, very relaxing and a fantastic choice for break. It is not a place that many Americans go or know where it is for that matter (it's an island near Sicily in the Meditteranean). Malta seems to have a sort of identity crisis-imagine a country that is a mix between Italy, Britain, Germany and Turkey. Maltese is a combo of Italian, some French and Arabic with some English randomly thrown in. It is a great place [View Full Entry]

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