Jackie's Blog

Woke up late and had an excellent smoked salmon breakfast in the same restaurant as we had eaten dinner the night before. This time it was outside in the shade with fabulous views overlooking Malta. Having looked around Mdina the night before, we decided we needed to get some exercise and go for a long walk. This involved getting a local bus to Dingli- this was an adventure in itself as we were not exactly sure where we were going!  The driver dropped us off about a mile away from where the walk was supposed to start but we ended up seeing more of the coastline than we expected. We walked along cliffs and saw Mary Magdalene's tiny church sitting very close to the huge modern radar tower which turned out to be the highest spot on the island of Malta-even higher than the town of Mdina. The route was then a circular one along the cliff edge, past vineyards and tiny homesteads. It was vey picturesque, a little warm but we ended up walking about six miles. That was not the end of t...

Happy birthday to me! We were all up bright and early as it was a normal work/school day for everyone else. We grabbed some breakfast and then I had the chore of opening cards and presents :-) My mum had found the tag from when I was born. My sister had some cards made with photos on from when I was probably about 9 years old and some taken earlier this summer. We drove the back roads to Gatwick airport and dropped off the hire car in time to have a coffee and wait for the Air Malta flight. I'd not heard anyone speak Maltese and discovered that the flight crew spoke it very fast! It has some Arabic sounding words, and some Italian in there somewhere- probably Sicilian too but it's an impossible language to try and guess. The flight seemed to go quite quickly (2 hrs 40 minutes) and before we knew it we were walking off the plane to the terminal. Hotel entrance We were met by a driver from the hotel which makes the transfer so simple. He was a young m...