Malta

The last week has been a lot of fun. Lucky enough, I was able to get my Visa last Wednesday, before leaving on our trip to Malta. Friday night we took a train from the Braunschweig train station (where it was snowing), that arrived in Bremen around 1:00 am Saturday morning. We took a taxi to the Bremen airport to relax and get ready for our 6:00 departure, but the airport was closed. We never would have guessed that it was so small! After freezing outside for 45 minutes, we finally found our way inside, and slept on airport benches for a couple of hours until the terminals opened up.

Anyways, the 2 and a half hour flight through Ryan Air went great, and we were in Malta by 9:00 Saturday morning. We took a cab to our hostel (it was scary driving on the left side of the road!), got unpacked, and went off exploring. We spent most of the day in Gzira, Sliema, and Valetta, the capital city, and saw all kinds of neat sights. We also crossed the island to view the Blue Grotto, which was beautiful. The best part, though, was that it was warm. Unfortunately, they were having a wind storm, so it was not quite warm enough to swim, but it was still in the low 70's.......much better than the snow back in Braunschweig. After a day out and about, we went to Paceville at night and hit up a couple of bars after dinner before heading to bed.

Sunday, we decided to take a bus to the far end of the island of Malta, and visit the smaller island of Gozo for the day. We crossed the channel on a ferry, which brought us by Comino and the Blue Lagoon, which had the bluest water you could ever possibly imagine. Once on Gozo we stopped at Ramla Bay for a few hours, which was a beautiful, sandy beach. From there, we could see Calypso's Cave, then crossed the island to the Ggantija Temples, the Inland Sea, and the Azure Window. The Azure Window was absolutely amazing! After a long day, we took the ferry back to Malta and went to bed.

Monday morning, we were suppossed to go on an all day cruise to Camino and the Blue Lagoon. However, due to the wind storm, the sea was too rough, and the cruise was cancelled. Instead, we took a bus to Golden Bay.....another great beach, and spent some time there. When we got back, we spent the last night in Malta back in Paceville and at the Hard Rock Cafe Malta.
The return flight went fine as well, but we were greeted by more snow in Braunschweig the next day. Oh, well......at least we were warm for a while!

All in all, it was a great trip.....we all had a lot of fun!