Archive for November, 2023

The breakfast room was rather chaotic and the local cuisine options that I had intended to try had run out, requiring me to fall back on my trusty continental breakfast choices.
After breakfast we walked through the city gate to St John’s Co Cathedral which was a lot quieter than the previous day when the cruise [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 18th 2023

The buffet breakfast was excellent with a full selection of both continental and cooked breakfast options including traditional Maltese options. Also available were items that needed cooking to order such as pancakes, omelettes and fried and poached eggs.
Comfortably replete, we left the hotel and walked down the hill towards the Templar Memorial and the siege [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 17th 2023

Our 3.30 am alarm call allowed us to get to the airport at 5am in time for our 7.05am flight. We encountered a slight hiccup when the in-car SatNav directed us to a blocked road which, too late we remembered had happened last time we flew from Manchester airport. It was four years ago so [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 16th 2023

Although we were both quite disorganised in our packing and preparations, we actually managed to set off on time for our overnight stay in the Premier Inn. We always choose to stay overnight in a hotel near to the airport when we have an early morning flight, it allows us to get to the airport [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Nov 15th 2023

During our recent Malta adventure I unfortunately lost my camera along with the photographs for the first part of our holiday. Luckily just before we travelled I had upgraded my mobile phone (paying less for my contract) so I was able to take photos after my camera had gone missing.
I have now replaced the camera [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 13th 2023

The man with the backpack is never lost. No matter wither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.
Horace Kephart

4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 13th 2023

It was a shock to the system returning to ‘Old Blighty’. We left Malta in 80F sunshine and landed in rainy 39F Manchester.
Photo diary accounts of our adventure coming soon…

6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 12th 2023

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