Blogs from Malta, Europe - page 37

A Little Malta Break! Europe » Malta By Bubba Woosh Joblet Sticky Pickles WylieMay 28th 2007Beckie Nowicka Having been to this country about 20 times you would think that I had no photos to show!!!………………… But no of course not!!! This is me remember!!! Mum and Dad took me away before I jet off to Dubai!!! We usually stay at the same hotel every time but it closed down so instead we were staying at a sister hotel in St Julian’s (the “lively” area… for Malta!)…………… The weather wasn’t that great so this time we did a bit of site seeing, which meant photo taking for me so I was happy!!! We visited: Mdina the Silent City (till I arrived!) Valletta the Ca... read more

We enjoyed our trip to Malta, we based ourselves in Mellieha Bay, and it was very easy to travel around the country by local bus and very cheap. We only stayed a week, but travelled around, visiting Mosta (an absolute must), Valletta, Comino island, and was also easily able to walk across to see the Popeye village filmset on the west coast. For a good easy week, it is a quiet, relaxing place to visit. My only recommendation would be to hire a taxi on Comino Island as the bus station is in the centre, and journey's go off in all directions, it is difficult to visit more than two places because of the timetables, hiring a taxi means you can explore the little island. ... read more

Malta Photos Europe » Malta » Valletta By Moving edgewaysApril 6th 2007Work provided a few days off in Malta. Valetta harbour (or harbours plural....) is stunning as is the Baroque old town with its neat grid system. Its a peculiar place with the mix of beauty and chaos of Italy but plenty of British influences too (it seems to be where old right-hand drive cars go to die, the only other place in Europe where they can drive on the correct(!) side of the road....) ... read more

The engines roar. The small airport building which is made out of limestone passes by. Just a second later, the wheels of the aircraft lift off and this typical sound makes me sure that they are parked in the wheel house. I can see the aircraft’s shadow soaring over green fields, roads with cars and yellow busses and villages. Solar cells on rooftops in Qormi, Attard and Mosta reflect the warm and still friendly late autumn sun. Soon the harbour of Ċirkewwa is under us. One of the white-blue ferry boats is about to leave on its twenty-minutes-trip to Gozo and takes the last cars that want to ferry across the Maltese Channel. Comino, the smallest of the Maltese islands, is already prepared for winter sleep. Finally, we reach Victoria, the mayor city of Gozo, turn ... read more

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