So, we slept, not very well. I apparently slept better than flickums who was kept up by inconsiderate guests and an inconsiderate boyfriend snoring in her ear ( Read more... )

Have arrived back in Britain, and done the epic drive to Manchester, so I have a few minutes to update ( Read more... )

Flickums bought me dinner.  Cake didn't have a candle in it though.

Wandered through the party district, and Flickums coerced me into trying a hookah. Something I've never tried before. We went for vanilla flavour, and had a Tequila Sunrise to go with it. Thus making that song stick in my head.

Flickums was wearing her long skirt, bodice and shawl, and ( Read more... )

40th birthday celebration started with Flickums waking me up and letting me open presents. I now have all of Futurama to rewatch, Mysterious Cities Of Gold season 2 to watch  and 2 new extra geeky t-shirts.

Set off back to Mdina to see the catacombs, the WW2 shelters and St Paul's grotto. Perhaps we should have paid extra for the audio tour since there wasn ( Read more... )

Tasty tasty food at a restaurant that seemed to close at 7pm. Didn't want to go straight back to the hotel, so went for a wander. We meet a nice horsey and his owner persuaded us that we should go on a horse drawn tour. Quite good fun, and both horse and owner were friendly. Learned about a few things we missed.

There was enough time to do a bit ( Read more... )

Had a morning chilling in the pool and hot tub before heading out to sightsee.

Visiting Another walled city.  This one on the mainland. Mdina - Pronounced Em-dina or possibly Mmm-dina rather than Madina.

Started with a tour on one of those little trains. Flickums was disappointed it wasn't a real train. We  were bounced along Malta's dishevelled roads as a ( Read more... )

Gozo is a lovely little island just next to Malta. Much less densely populated, and full of exciting places to visit. We drove there, found the ferry, and just missed the boat. Still, they run every 45 minutes so not a massive wait. Got a bit lost getting back to the car and got shouted at by ferry crew.

Started to follow the driving tour reminded ( Read more... )

We have arrived in Malta.

Hired a car. Helpful man showed us how to get the seat down because a Peugeot 106 has less boot space than Thunderbird. Couldn't work out how to slide seats forward to access back seats.
Holly the evil SatNav took us to the hotel. We found Malta's only free parking space, and checked in. Then went on a food hunt. Found a ( Read more... )