The apartment's location was excellent with regard to ease of access to the Marathon finish, the buses and ferries, however there was one drawback there were builders working on the next block who started work at 7am , so no lie ins for the weary runners.We had a morning to do some more exploring and decided to go back to Valletta on the bus as the Cathedral was shut on Saturday and the rain had disrupted the latter part of our visit. The cultural trip was go...

I listened to the howling wind in the night and as Simon was getting up at 5am I didn't really get much sleep as we felt obliged to see Simon off at 5.30 am and prepare his bread and jam pre race food. It was still dark but not raining, the wind had dropped and the weather forecast had changed yet again. The day looked relatively bright and the sun was shining when the darkness disappeared. We bought tickets for the marathon buses to take us to the start, bu...

It's now 4pm and we have returned from our jaunt around Valletta just in time as the wind is now howling and the rain lashing down but it's good to watch from the window as we have some tea and more carbo. The weather hasn't been what we had planned . Simon need not have worried about forgetting to bring shorts and we didn't need the the sunscreen but it hasn't stopped our boat trip to Valletta, a walk around the ancient city and 4 geocaches. ...