Asian perspectives

London based Elaine spent four days in Malta last week with her friends. She blogged about it here with a colourful post and numerous photos. At the end of the holiday in 'sunny sultry Malta' she went 'back to rain, wretched weather, and work' in London. Some excerpts from Rambling Roads:

Across the bay, there was loud music playing and a crowd had gathered to watch adolescent girls doing the para-para to cheesy 80s music. We found out in our 4 days in Malta, that the whole country is hooked on 80s music! It's like they were stuck in a time warp, and all we heard was Debbie Gibson, Belinda Carlisle and other Mambo favourites...

It was more crowded tonight then the night before, but it was all 小妹妹 and 小弟弟!! 15 year old wannabes... sigh... But what to do, Uncle OHH wanna be happening, so we had to queue up for Axis (supposedly the longest surviving club in Malta), which served diluted drinks and had cannot-make-it dancers on the platform. After half and hour, Hils couldn't take it anymore and we left. At the exit, they didn't even have UV-ink! They "chopped" us with unsightly black ink... urgh...

Anyways... it was a really hot day - the blazing heat so draining, it just made me sleepy. After visiting the Rotunda (Parish Church of St John the Baptist) in Xewkija, the Ggantija Temples and Ta'Kola Windmill in Xaghra and the Citadella in Victoria Rabat, the taxi driver brought us to this place for lunch, and it seemed every taxi driver took their passengers there! Our driver mentioned something about it being owned by his friend's son or something...

..St Paul's Catacombs in Rabat, where the martyr St Agatha hid, while fleeing an amorous Sicilian governor. When she returned to Sicily, she was tortured by having her breasts sheared off and burnt on the stake. A gruesome painting depicting the torture scene hangs in her shrine in Medina...