Tue 02.Nov.2021
Malta
You can't fly directly from San Francisco to Malta, and even if you could, why would you
want to miss seeing the Alps on the connecting flight from Paris?
Thanks to Covid-19, I did not get to enjoy Paris en route. Transit passengers may
not leave the airport grounds. I just holed up in the Ibis Hotel at the airport,
and caught up on sleep.
The Alps were a good reward for the effort!
For a day's diversion, I rode the bus to the western end of the island, whence the
car ferry leaves for Gozo. A short walk from the ferry terminal is a small bay called
Ramla tal-Bir, with hotel and harbor.
Back in St Julians, Balluta Bay holds a small beach amongst the high-rises.
Is it just me? A garish sprawling high-rise hotel with hundreds of interchangeable rooms...
is that a boutique??
Marsaxlokk
Valletta
St George's Square
If they choose to put it that way...
Oh look!
We must be in London!
Valletta City Gate
Sez Wikipedia:
The present gate, which is the fifth one to have stood on the site,
was built between 2011 and 2014 to designs of the Italian architect Renzo Piano.
