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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Here are the other pictures that I have. These are from Mdina, which is an ancient Medieval city/fort that remains the same as it did when it was built. It was really cool and I loved it there. Also down the road from Mdina was where they did handblown glass, which we went and visited as well (but no pictures of that). Also there are pictures of the beautiful town and view from Qawra, which is where the hotel was that we stayed at for our trip. [View Full Entry]

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Dear Friends and Relatives, I know it's been sometime since my last Travelblog and hopefully I will get up todate before Lars and I start again at the end of March. Firstly, if I missed anyone with Christmas and New Year wishes, I apologies. I forgot my address book on the boat when we left in November and didn't have any addresses at all, so, SORRY and hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. At the moment we are in Malta with our eldest son Peter and Anna his wife to-be. On our arrival we found that the gang-plank [View Full Entry]

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Such is the sordid combination of fats, sodium, nitrates and meat which make up the hot dog that it is rarely considered a delicacy. But my many travels have led me to experience this ignoble sausage in many shapes and forms. The mecca for this mysterious meat is none other than New York City. Here hot dogs are hawked at street corners ubiquitously and the advent of gourmet hot dogs have led to restaurants specifically designed for this oxymoron of the culinary arts. One famous chain in Coney Island, Nathan’s Famous, has millions of New Yorkers convinced that the best [View Full Entry]

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I don't think I'll ever get sick of this conversation, one I've had with many people all across Europe: European: "So where are you from?" Me: "America." European: "Where in America? New York? Florida?" (Interchange with California once in a while.) Me: "No, Wisconsin." *blank stare* Me: "It's right in between Chicago and Canada." European: "Ohhhh! Okay!" I just love that I'm messing up their sense of US geography by comparing a state to a country and a city... Anyyyways, I'm back in London after a thoroughly amazing "holiday" (as the Europeans call it) in Malta. I'm sad to re [View Full Entry]

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