Malta – Day 1 July 26, 2009
Posted by Martin in : malta, travel , trackbackAfter a midnight flight from Bangkok I arrived at Frankfurt airport with three and a half hours to kill before my connecting flight.
This holiday I’m flying alone a Tik has work and study commitments and killing time at Frankfurt was quite an effort. Frankfurt must be one of the world’s most expensive airports and I really resented paying 10 euros for a sandwich and drink. I’d already used up the 40 minutes of battery on my laptop and as much as I wanted to get some work done I wasn’t happy to pay 20 euros for a 2 euro plug adaptor that I’d only need for a few hours.
I find the German accent so hard sounding that I felt that everybody at the airport was somehow shouting at me. I boarded the connecting flight to Malta feeling like a naughty schoolboy who was being disciplined by his teacher. Wow those Lufthansa air hostesses are big. Compared to the petite frames of the Thai airways staff these women scared the crap of me.
I found Mum, Dad and Lisa waiting for their bags at Malta airport. They had arrived just a few minutes earlier from Manchester so it was practical for us all to share the hotel taxi together.
We are here during a heatwave. It was 38 degrees outside – significantly hotter than Thailand!
We are staying at the Hotel Juliani. This is a lovely hotel that usually caters to business guests. The rooms are clean, each having large TVs, DVD players and a large bath. The staff are very friendly, very professional and I’d highly recommend staying here.
Our family had arrived first so we headed to the rooftop pool to await the rest of the group.
We have a nice view of St. Julians bay, although admittedly there doesn’t seem to be one attractive building visible in this part of the country. This photo below is the view from the 9th floor swiming pool area.
Jason, Stuart, Rebecca, Michelle and Grandma arrived a couple of hours later and joined us by the pool. It doesn’t seem like there’s really much to do in this part of the town and although we’ve not really panned anything, it looks like most of our time will be spent relaxing by the pool. We are all quite sensitive to the high prices of everything and a lot of activities don’t seem to be very good value for money.
Grandma has booked us all in with full board and we met for dinner at seven thirty. The hotels ‘Zest’ restaurant is highly regarded in the area and is open to the public as well.
The restaurant and food was fantastic. I had a quail salad appetizer, beef shallots and a dessert bento set. We’ll be eating here for another 6 nights so I’ll no doubt be adding more photos soon.
Below: Stuart showing off his Quail salad.
After dinner, all of us except Grandma and Michelle took a walk around the bay.
Today and tomorrow there is a religious fiesta taking place and we were told to expect fireworks.
For the first 90 minutes we saw just one mediocre firework every few minutes but later on we got some good seats on the jetty and enjoyed an impressive show.
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