Malteasers

That is the official residency of Chris and I with our ID cards and we can vote here also now! hooray!
Only don't ask to see my card as on the day we registered (last week) we had a photo taken. Today they decided to take another and use that instead, the ONE day I am not wearing make up! typical!
They have a 70% vote turnout here, that rivals the UKs...the UKs voting rate on X factor that is 'cos too many people don't vote there!

To celebrate I think Chris and I shall have Maltese wine and some victoria sponge, the perfect marraige of Malta and the UK :)

It means I get the bus cheaper too, things like subscriptions: TV, mobile phone etc they are all cheaper with the ID card.

Storm again today, the full works, have had 3 in the less than three weeks i have been here. Go in the streets and you are ankle deep in water, on the roads anyway, 30 minutes later it is sunny again.

Chris and I watched "Never mind the buzzcocks" last night, just bits like that you miss, the good old British humour. Not sure I am desperate enough to watch Eastenders just yet!

Went to Gozo yesterday, the beautiful scenery was somewhat spoilt by a German lady who was heckling me everywhere i turned because i dared to sit next to her on a packed bus and she would not have enough room to keep adjusting her shawl if i sat next to her....crazy woman, less said about her the better.

It was a lovely place, seemed a bit more arable than Malta, they have a lot of sheep in Gozo, maybe it is the welsh equivalent! Heard a lot of good things of the Gozo cheese. It was dare i say it quaint (i hate using that word it is so demeaning!) and it was boring. Boring but pretty! Apparently it is fairly customary for middle class people in Malta to rent out a farmhouse in the summer over there with a few other couples and have a chilled out stay.

Here are the pictures (of Gozo, not crazy person)

The Particular happiness of lemon cake

It starts to feel like home when i do some baking and today I decided to treat Chris to one of his favourite cakes, lemon and poppy seed, the jamie oliver recipe. its in the oven now.

still getting used to the lack of manners some people seem to have here, pushing my way to the front of the bus queue as i was infact at the beginning of said queue only everyone decided to ignore this and try and rush on. Hana 1- 0 crowd. Bought myself a new pair of trainers, am excited to begin my running along the promenade, excercise always creates a bit of positivity to the body and mind. I want TV!. I am of the tiny school of thought that thinks TV is actually very good for you and educational!! Most disagree. We will sort it soon enough. Have heard most things are cheaper and quicker when you have an ID card, we are waiting for ours to be processed, should be with us at end of this week I hope.

Not too much more to report. Chris and I had a good weekend.
We decided to pick up the little bits we did not have: a grater for cheese and veg, some small bins for the bathroom and some other decorations such as plants, garden furniture (for our balcony) and the all important coffee maker. We headed to the area where the where a couple of homeware shops. One was awful, it was like a pound shop and was absolutely packed. We picked up a couple of bits there but favoured the other shop which was more upmarket with better choice and not even much more expensive. We picked up some stuff there to make the apartment all the more practical and pretty!
We went to the Notte Bianco festival in Valetta on the Saturday night, which led to a dangerous taxi ride home. Some of the drivers here..... Some shops stayed open late so we had a browse, lots of galleries and museums were free admission. Chris and I went to the Maltese museum of Archaelogy. It was fairly interesting, we got to see the fat ladies of Malta


It was overcrowded, there were thousands in the streets. It was not as slickly managed as an event in the UK (no I am not being sarcastic!) but that is the beauty of Malta. As I say the taxi ride home was terrible, poor Chris did not have a seatbelt. At one stage we were on wrong side of road heading for another car. Needless to say there was a lot of beeping going on. The driver was a bit worse than we have seen in general on the roads here, but not too much!!

On the Sunday we went for a drive to get our bearings. We dropped into a garden centre. Got some ideas but forgot to bring Euros out with us so will be back another time for some citrus trees :) that will mean more lemon cake!