Blogs from St Pauls Bay, Malta, Malta, Europe

We had heard that there's an excellent market in Floriana on a Sunday, but despite asking several people in the hotel, we were at a loss as to exactly where it is. Most people seemed to think that we were after some local fish market, which, quite rightly, they thought was a bizarre thing for us to be asking about. Eventually one of the receptionists told us that it was at the park-and-ride, about 20 minutes' walk away, so we looked that up on Google Maps and set off to find it. What we didn't know is that the market finished at 11.00am, and we arrived at 11.30am to find everyone in the process of clearing everything away. It was a lot of walking in horrendous heat for no reason (although we did get to see ... read more

Malta day 1 June 1st Have you ever considered how much time you spend on tarmac? No? Me neither until today. And then Teresa May, Trump and their predecessors left me stranded on the tarmac at Birmingham airport for an extra two hours. Your wars abroad and bombing of innocents meant that when an extra bag was unaccounted for in the hold every passenger had to get off and identify their luggage. And then we struggled to get a take off slot. And apparently there wasn't a surplus bag in the end. And so we sat on the tarmac (well, in the plane) but you get my drift for far too long. But not long enough to get compensation. And this was after we'd been on that damned M6. More tarmac. We are now going on ... read more

Lehka koupacka, dobre jidlo, anglicti duchodci, konec MS 2010, vune parfemu Jil Sander, Valecny reporter a Kinnie ... to vse se mi vybavi pri vzpominkach na jeden evropsky minivylet za stredomorskym slunickem na zacatku cervence 2010. Byl to kratky vylet na jih Evropy. Zkombinovaly jsme tak koupacku, ikdyz velmi casto na skalach, s poznavanim miniostruvku doslova nabiteho historii. Souostrovi se da krasne poznat pomoci klasickych busiku z 50.-70.let 20.stoleti, obeplout diky huste siti lodniho spojeni a vysoke nabidce lodnich vyletu. Ubytovaly jsme se v zatoce St.Pauls Bay, kde v r.60 ztroskotal apostol Pavel. Prvni den jsme pak vyrazily za 15EUR vyhlidkovym busem po severni casti ostrova. Objeli tak cele pobrezi mezi Buggibou a Vallettou, prohledly si byvale hlavni mesto Mdinu, kde zda se chcipl pes, ale za to je prijemny chladek v uzkych ulickach. Hezke koupani ... read more