On our day off on Saturday we decided to do the tourist thing and get on one of those tour buses. I am a huge fan of these! It was a hot day, as per usual and we sat at the top in the open air to feel the wind in our hair.
It was a good way, without a car to get a feel of the place, put place names to the location. We passed our new apartment along the promenade and went on to Tigne Point. This is a desirable area in Malta, we know someone with a lovely apartment out there and there is a shopping centre there.
I am a big shopper, I like my possessions and the joy that searching for them brings. We had a wander and I was a tiny bit disappointed I really hate to say. There is a small Marks and Spencer food shop, were a talking small but it is better than nothing! There were not too many shops there really, a few European clothes shops, a couple of the upmarket high street stores like United Colours of Benetton. The supermarket at the bottom was a good place to look round to get an idea as to the choice and prices available to us. There was not a lot of choice and the prices were similar to the UK but with UK brands like Iceland (who wants Iceland food anyway?!) being three times the price.
Chris stopped for an expresso (he was not impressed) and I went to a bookstore (I was not impressed) it was a poky one and again the prices were about 3 times the cost of here. Probably only to be used in times of desperation!!
So we stayed at the shopping centre for maybe an hour, such was the anti climax and went on the bus for more of the tour. There was lots of limestone buildings to be seen.
The port des bombes in the picture and a few other monuments, statues and the like. We stopped off in a lovely little marina type village (they mostly are being a small island with lots of bays) called Victoriosa. It was pretty with lots of showy boats again. We stopped off for some lunch at a place called "Two and a half lemons" it was alright there, Chris could not rave enough about his beef sandwich. Mine was OK. The atmosphere was the enjoyable thing as there were friends and family gathered having a very slow lunch that you could tell began way before we arrived that day and long after we left. It impressed upon us the slower, more relaxed way of life.
On the Sunday we decided to just relax, having only just arrived and already explored and got an apartment. We sat by the lovely pool at the Hilton most of the day, reading. Then packed in the eveing ready for the move the next day.
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