Us in Malta 2024


Us and a couple of chocolate bears, something new in our house	And sharing a bottle of wine at a wine tasting	Looks as if Christmas is on the way. We must remember to ...	...bring our Father Christmas lists with us to the Silver Ray

The padres, photo are it must be said, a bit old, have now got free old age passes to Heritage Malta. This meant the we wasted good eating time, being dragged around piles of old stones and dark holes in the ground


Actually this was not too bad, it was about Fortress BuildingAnd they had a model about our size	And this is Fort St Angelo, where they have big guns	Auntie Joanna came to Malta for a few days

And then they took us to something called Catacombs	Catacombs are essentially dark holes under the ground	into which they buried people

And at Marsaxlokk we sat well back from the water	Mdina is always worth a visit (they have lots of restaurants)	And this Maltese fellow is an old friend of ours


This Michelin Star stuff at Bahia is very poncy ..	..but very good	With Auntie Joanna at Medina Restaurant	Where we managed to inspect the bar as well

A Pizza in Valletta	..and a glass of mulled wine in Valetta	This restaurant in Three Cites as called Marea	It was difficult to find and the old man managed to get lost

Our favourite, though the Madre is not too keen on it, is in Mosta	These are the sort of buns that we really like	Another poncy restaurant, Tartarum in Marsaxlokk	They were unfortunately more into fish than buns

And this was a really nice restaurant in Attard.	We booked a really nice table on the balcony, and allowed the padres to join us

People have perhaps unkindly said, that the Boyzz and Culture are not words that you would expect to read in the same sentence. But we did go to both a rendering of Arias by an Italian Tenor. And and organ recital in the St John's Cathedral

We leave this to the end as it was the most difficult and distressing for us. For reasons unknown, the padres decided to walk (over 5 days) the entire length of the Victorian Lines . This is a wall that was built in 1870 to run all the way across Malta as a defence line. Now we are all for defence lines, but this wall was now falling apart in places (old stones), and is very up and down. Even the madre found the up and down difficult, but when you have only short teddy bear legs, it is all much, much more difficult

So after Malta we are off to USA and Peru. We hope to meet Father Christmas along the way


We managed to stay awake, so did not disgrace the family		Looks a bit undignified. Us leaving the organ recital