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…
“Best to take the moment present as a present of the moment.” And that line, like so many lines, well it’s just thrown away, a moment of a throw away moment. Which in the end is what makes Sondheim so…
About 10 million years ago the enzyme in our bodies used to detoxify alcohol, dehydrogenase or ADH4, underwent a single mutation that left it 40 times more efficient. The mutation occurred in the last common ancestor we shared with gorillas,…
We had a leisurely morning at our luxe digs, then checked-out midday. Took an Uber to the Park Hyatt. We moved hotels because a) our gift certificate money for the Fairmont ran out and b) the Hyatt is way closer…
Cesar Baldaccini made a cast of his thumb in pink translucent plastic in 1965 for a Paris gallery. It ended up selling at auction for over a million euros. So he made more. Bigger thumbs. In all sorts of materials. …