Vagabond Jess goes camping

Jess, who toured Europe over xmas, is recording her year of studies at the university of Malta on this blog. This past weekend she joined her friends for a camping and hiking trip to Gozo. From Maltese Vagabond:

Gozo is a lot more rural than malta and there were bird hunters out starting fires in the bushes and hiding in their stands, kind of like walking through a war zone. there were farm fields everywhere and they were all really small fields and it was really really cool. it was beautiful. Then, saturday night we sat on the roof and watched the fireworks in Valletta. They were celebrating the one year anniversary of being accepted in to the EU and it was a tourism thing kicking off fireworks season. Sunday we went on a hike with Receptionist Ray and he got us lost and we had to climb up some pretty steep cliffs and then climb down them. unfortunatly i ran out of space on my memory card so i can't show you what we were climbing... hopefully someone else has pictures. we walked past a nude beach from waaaaay up on a cliff. everyone was pretty amused by it...

Lori, another North American student in Malta, describes the Grand Harbour fireworks display here