Competing with Ibiza

2bitstudios, who blogs from Vancouver, Canada, writes about her recent working visit to Malta:

..It’s more beautiful than I anticipated and the Maltese are so nice. It’s a little past midnight in Malta and I just returned from the gym after having the hotel security guard open up their *huge* facility just for me I didn’t really ask for special permission; the front desk clerk insisted they could open it for me. Everyone we interact with is friendly, laid back and easy going. We finished our first day of workshops with the team of 5 and they are all very easy going, joking around, smart and quite productive when we get down “to it”. The goverment helps subsidize university so they are a highly educated society.

..Food is maybe a couple bucks less than what you’d find in Vancouver (when you convert). They are well “teched out” with the latest phones and ipods. They have all the Banada Republic, Mex, etc shopping. The gym has the typical spinning and yoga classes and people seem to keep themselves in shape. Anyway…. the Maltese seem to have the lifestyle and attitude that I appreciate. Really, I have nothing but great things to say about Malta so far.

We had Sunday to walk/bus around. It’s the most densely populated country in the EU so you see a lot in a short distance. It’s the typical european style of lovely neolithic looking buidlings. It reminds me of Spain with the light cream coloured buildings. Then, I was expecting a small quant/pretty harbour as the main-catalogue-shot-of-malta but the whole coast (what we’ve seen so far) is picture after picture of beauty...Below is the view from our hotel in St.Juliens. It’s apparently where all the “action” is. The club scene goes til 4am and some til 10am or noon They say it’s trying to rival Ibiza’s club scene...