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…
Where are we? What are we doing? What bed am I waking up on? Is it hot or cold and what language is anyone speaking? It is apparently autumn, sometimes 11C sometimes 14C, November, France, and language is evidement Franglais…
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. …
Another gorgeous, hot, beautiful day in Malta. They call it November. View from our hotel balcony this morning, Valletta, Maneol Island and Manoel Fort, the Strand in Sliema For us, an ad-hoc adventure today to the fortified three cities (mainly…
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…
Personally I’ve yet to find that longitude and latitude / can educate those scores of monumental bores / Who travel in groups and herds and troupes / Of varying breeds and sexes / Till the whole world reels to shouts…
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…