Magic Malta

In their bilingual blog, Kevin and Solene recount their journey around the Mediterranean. They are currently in Malta where they are hosted by friends who got married last week. Join them in their drive around Malta and in their Gozo walks as they reflect on minimalist wedding cakes, roadworks, hunting and on becoming knights. From Fragrant vagrants:

So here we are in wonderful Malta, the island off the coast of everywhere else. It is a completely unique place, one of the most densely populated places on the planet, with an almost arabic/north african feel to the language and alleyed towns outside of Valletta, yet still an absoutely baroque and catholic country. We've been to Paris, Strasbourg, Marseille, Corsica, Rome, Napoli, Salerno/Amalfi Coast, Sicily/Siracusa and now Malta. So we have more than a few blanks to fill in...I am going to start from here and work backwards (and forwards) with the blog as things can be funnier when they are fresher!

I'll be using Fragrant Vagrants for general observations and happenings, and using the 'Vague Rants' blog for little nuggets of detail on people and thoughts and happenings. Anyway, Malta has to be one of the friendliest places on the planet. We are lucky of course that we are being hosted with old friends of mine. They also happened to be getting married last weekend and we were allowed to witness the event - which was pretty incredible.

The wedding was in fort St. Angelo near Vittoriosa, one of the Three Cities east of the Grand Harbour overlooked by Valletta. (Valletta is a Baroque City and a World heritage site, one of the earliest examples of urban planning when layed out by the Knights of St.John in the late 16th Century as a celebration of the defeat of the Ottoman Turks)...