Bev's Blog

Beverley Oliver from Western Australia who blogs here is in Malta on a working holiday. Her first impressions of Malta: 'It is fabulous, so old, so crowded so ramshackle, so dusty, so steeped in history. I arrived Sunday night just on dark and was smitten.' Before her conference started, she found the time to visit Valletta which she found fascinating: 'It is an old, ancient--walled city built by the Knights. They built the city is such a way that tall buildings supply shade to narrow streets, and the streets run in long straight lines so the whole area gets the coastal breeze.' From Bev's Blog:

Early this morning-yes, 8am! I heaved myself and baggage onto a local Bentley bus (these also came with the knights, I think) and rumbled along with the locals for about an hour to a bay in the northwest corner of Malta called St Paul's Bay. Apparently he was shipwrecked here and lingered on to make many Christians before resuming his travels (why isn't there an Epistle to the Malteesers in the Bible?). Anyway this is package tourism deluxe and I am now staying at the Faulty Towers of Malta. Don' be fooled by those tab photos: my room wasn't ready for hours, no luggage brought up until several hours later. But these are minor annoyances; there is also no running water... So having had a dip in the pool between conference sessions of course. I am now sitting patiently waiting to have a shower. Even a wash would be good. I suspect these giant hotels are slapped up and who knows or cares, what works! Anyway, it does not really bother me-all part of the fun. I have a lovely balcony, a view of the Med, a nice room and so on...