But sometimes they do not season their food at all. They just add cheese. It has been an intriguing, interesting, and sometimes gastronomically delightful four days in Lyon. But judging by the graffiti, boarded shops and ongoing protests, regret might…
We flew from Malta to Lyon on an early morning flight. It was €15 for two people to take a Bolt hotel to airport in Malta; it was €34 for two people to take the public transit tram from Lyon…
So we say adios or adieu or ciao or, in Maltese, Caw or Sahha. And we leave the sun behind. Today’s post is just random pics taken in Valletta over the last week which never made it to a specific…
It was forwards, backwards, and round again. It was walking, then more walking, a break, walking, more walking, and then when we were completely walked out we walked to dinner. It was a 1981 cassette player with auto-reverse, dual capacity. …
We’re back! Apses, domes, buttresses; neolithic ruins, Catholic iconography, wars, warfare, archeological remnants; sailors, sultans, knights, crown colonists. Baby, you want it, we got it. And it’s not what we posted last week. Oh no, this is all new, this…
It’s Xlendi. But, phonetically, shlendy. It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times… And Xlendi was stunning, a nice cap to a full and fulfilling day. First off, however, we bussed to Ggantija Temple. Another archeological…
Malta: Population over 500,000. Malta: Registered vehicles, over 400,000. So a reason not to rent a car. We booked a taxi to take us from Mdina to the south of the island for the car ferry to Gozo, to board…
We set out after breakfast to the ruins of a late Neolithic archeological treasure on Malta’s southwest coast: Hagar Qim and Mnajdra, from about 3600 BCE, both older than Stonehenge. On the one hand, just a pile of rocks. Very,…
We started the day with death. Wait, no, we started the day with a lovely breakfast included with our room. After that we headed out of town against the significant tide into town. Mdina, daylight hours, has a Cinque Terre…
Knights of Malta that is. Geddit? See what I did? That’s some Daily Show punditry at play… Anyway, it was a long day’s journey. Here was how the relaxing travel day was to play out: We walk a block to…