Wednesday 23rd May Had a later start this morning as d*** tried to get some progress re the visa card farce. After a somewhat frustrating call it turned out that all Australian transactions are frozen, so on to another card to keep the world rolling. After breakfast we went to catch a bus to M'dina the old capital before Valletta & Rabat its suburb outside the wall. This proved harder than we expected as there were 2 stops about 100m apart & natural...

Monday 21st May Had Dick's nightmare over the last 2 days when his computer refused to do anything as a download appeared to have stopped it in its tracks. Today we found a computer repair place close by & took it over. Having found a repairer we set off into Valletta &took a ferry to Vittoriosa, formerly Birgu, the original settlement before Valletta was founded after the Great Siege of Malta by the Turks in 1565. The town is on a peninsular & ...

Friday 18th May After breakfast across the way we caught a local bus to the airport & spotted about 6 flamingos still at the salt lake well after they should have moved on. The flight of 2.5 hrs was quite pleasant & we were picked up at the airport to be taken to our apartment, which is clean & neat if a little spartan but not that well located. Then the fun started. At last we had our mobile phones working again but the first message from the b...

Wednesday 16th May Up reasonably early to consume our strange mixture of foods before catching a bus up to the intra state bus terminal for the 10.30 bus to Limassol. One thing Cyprus does very well is to run the buses on time & at about 10.29 for the princely sum of €4 each we set off on the 1 hour journey. The bus terminated at the new port outside a most impressive but absolutely locked up cruise terminal building with no toilets available. Another ...

Thursday 17th May d*** was expecting an easy day but after breakfast, we walked towards the tourism centre & found a remarkable private archeological museum housing items from 2000Bc until the middle ages. Some of the ancient ceramics were quite extraordinary in there design & state of preservation & a lot of work had gone into curating the collection. From there we visited the tourism centre as planned & secured a bus timetable for tomorrow ...