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On the Move

A collection of my travel and photography blogs

  • Fooding around in Malta

    When Shirley and I booked our trip with Kensington Tours, we asked for some local cuisine to be included along with culture and history. They certainly listened; today, our last day here, we have devoted to fooding around in Malta.

  • Mdina and Rabat

    Following an excellent continental breakfast on the rooftop terrace of our hotel, Rebecca, our favourite guide from yesterday, picked us up to take us to see some interesting sites. We were supposed to start with a couple of temples, but I had wanted to take some photos of the colourful fishing boats that are found…

  • Valletta to Mdina

    Shirley and I had the morning to ourselves today, so we went walkabout in Valletta. We headed downhill to the Grand Harbour which is indeed very grand! See below.

  • Back to Valletta

    This morning a different guide, Josette, took us on a walking tour of Valletta. On our way to St. John’s Co-Cathedral we passed the Sette Giugno Monument (sette Guigno means 7th of June in Italian) commemorating riots over cost of living increases in 1919.

  • A Day in Gozo

    Thank you for identifying yourselves on your comments. Such cooperative readers. 🙂 Shirley received some exciting non-Malta related news. Mary Brunkow who just won the Nobel Prize in Medicine is Shirley’s former grad student! Now back to Malta. Our guide for the day, Ingrid, and our driver, Chris, picked us up at 9 am and…

  • Valletta arrival

    Thank you for your comments and good wishes on my previous post. Unless you are logged in to WordPress, your comments show up as anonymous. I would love it if you would sign your posts if you were willing to do so. Thanks. Following an overnight flight from Newark to Frankfurt, we boarded plane to…