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2 August 2023
Above: Decorations for the festivities. It’s an easy day today, moving ourselves from Gozo back to Valletta. First up was the 1000 bus to Victoria, followed the 1045 ferry to Valletta. That tight connection was very easy and there was no stress at all. Once in Valletta, we were going to take the lift from […]
1 August 2023
Our accommodation came with breakfast supplied at the café opposite, ordered from an extensive menu. We ordered the most complete version, a very big English breakfast and we will not repeat it tomorrow! Today, we have an excursion to Blue Lagoon which is between Comino and Cominotto Islands, which is in turn between Malta and […]
31 July 2023
Moving to Gozo Today we head to Gozo, the smaller island off the main island of Malta. This had been on our plans six years ago when we had a rental car and the queue to get across with the car ferry (from Cirkewwa) was far too long. Since about 2 years ago, a passenger […]
30 July 2023
Getting a rental car We managed to get a rental car online at short notice for the day, from Sicily By Car. The price was only EUR18, picking up from its airport location whereas whatever available in the old city was far pricier. The downside was that we had to get to and from the […]
29 July 2023
St John’s Co-Cathedral Despite the one-hour time change from Larnaca, we had a lazy start to the day, making our way to the St John’s Co-Cathedral at 0900 when it opened. I had pre-booked the tickets online but there wasn’t much of a queue, so it was really unnecessary. For me, this church packs such […]
28 July 2023
Flying to Malta We left our Nicosia hotel around 0815 by rideshare-ordered taxi for the Kapnos shuttle on the edge of the city where we would change to a shuttle to Larnaca’s airport at 0900. I had booked the shuttle online, which was just as well as there was only one spare seat. Getting to […]
11 August 2017
We had booked a rental car for the day. It was quite reasonably priced especially if you take into the consideration that we could return it at the airport (which would cost us EUR10-15 to get to for our flight). The rental car delivery, organised for 0830 was a little late. We got picked up […]
10 August 2017
We tried to head out early before it got too hot. But it was 0900 by the time we left, wandering down to the ferry for the short hop across to the Three Cities. There was nothing specific that we wanted to do but it was nice to wander around, especially when parts were very […]
9 August 2017
The hotel had stocked the fridge with milk and juice and placed a packet of Weetabix on the bench as well. After a light breakfast, we met the receptionist at 1000 to pay then ventured out. First stop was St John’s Co-Cathedral. Nothing had prepared me for the rich baroque interior. It seemed that not […]