Blogs from Malta, Europe - page 36

It was embarkation day and time to pack up and travel to the port of Pireaus, Greece to board the Voyager. We were so excited to see our favorite ship docked in the harbor and to greet our shipboard family. After 403 days on Regent ships, everything was so familiar. We noticed changes like flat screen TVs in the suites and new furniture on Pool Deck. We know where everything goes in our suite and our old routine immediately comes back to us. It didn’t take long to settle in. We had packed lightly for our 17 day cruise through the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic. Our calendar started filling up with lunch and dinner plans with old and new friends, an anniversary party and a formal dinner for 8 including several friends-one from corporate, the ... read more

Malta is a very, very interesting country. Our trip was in the middle of their election and there are two main political parties in Malta, the Labor Party and the Nationalists. On the second day that we were there, according to one of our hotel workers, Malta elected its first democratically elected president. So, needless to say there were parties everywhere. Our hotel, Hotel Alexandra, was located right in the middle of the largest tourist district so the scenery consisted mostly of restaurants and nightclubs. This part of the country, St. Julians, was very dirty and crowded, but once you leave this area Malta is beautiful. I arrived in Malta Thursday night and spent most of Friday just getting oriented with the atmosphere of Malta and the location of our hotel. My first adventure outside of ... read more

Almost people think if they want to travel they must have a lof of money. But it depends on how will you use. If you decide how will I use money before going to travel you can enjoy enough. The internet is full of brim about information. If you search in internet you can find the most cheap ticket and accomodation. I have been to Malta. If I visit again I'll spend money into the most cheap accomodation and plane ticket. Even I stay youth hostel I have to try traditional food of Malta on. Even the accomodation isn't hotel it doesn't matter. My traveling of Malta's purpose is seeing and feeloing about Malta's nature. I dont want to just stay luxury hotel all day. I want to meet Maltese. I'll buy student plane ticket ... read more

For Christmas 2007 we journeyed from Munich to Malta. We flew for pretty cheap on Air Malta as winter is far and away the off-season for tourism in Malta. As our flight touched down at the Malta airport everyone on our plane broke into spontaneous applause. At first this seemed kind of funny to me, but then seemed a bit off-putting. Was there a reason we should be so happy that we landed safely? Maybe they had made some kind of announcement on the flight in Maltese that I didn't understand. Whatever, we were in Malta and it was a comfortable 75 degrees outside and sunny. We were happy to be someplace new. We changed money at the airport when we found that on January 1st Malta would be transitioning from their own currency to the ... read more

Well my friends it's officially been a year now that i've been on the road again!! It's only fitting that i find myself back to where i was just a year ago...in London....but before coming back here i spent three wonderful weeks in the gem of the Mediterranean sea, the island of Malta!!!! Thanks to Simon's invitation to visit his island i found myself taken in by his familly and experience the true Maltese life!! Most people would think that three weeks in one place is a long time but when you're visiting a country comprised of three tiny islands packed with history, splattered with sandy clear blue beaches and populated with some of the most welcoming and friendly people i've have the pleasure to meet in Europe three weeks was not long enough! I don't ... read more