Surprise birthday present

Tom Gara came to Malta from Egypt to give a surprise birthday present to Thea Demanuele who is spending her vacation with her family in Malta. While waiting for Thea, he has been taking photos and discovering the island:

Malta is a really really unique place. Its kind of hard to describe in words - tiny and crowded but somehow still feeling like there is a lot of country to see. It has history in buckets, almost so much history that the really amazing parts are devalued by an oversupply. It has the strongest cuerrency I have ever used (1 maltese pound is 3.15 US Dollars) - changing my full months Egyptian salary (1000 Egyptian Pounds) and getting ONE NOTE in return was pretty soul crushing, especially given that it was only a fifty. I didnt even get the biggest note. But things are also fairly cheap in places - especially the incredibly delicious street snack pastizzi - which cannot be described in objective terms - just imagine the thing that you want all other small snack things to be - hot and crispy and fresh and cheesy and TEN CENTS.