Malta 2014
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Carnival in Nadur
Roads in Malta
Xlendi
Azure Window
Blue Grotto
Xwejni Bay and Salt Pans
Inland Sea
St. Peter's Pool
Tony Dyson
Around Malta
Ggantija
Hagar Qim
Mnajdra
Ta Pinu
St. Julian's
Valetta
Marsaxlokk
Mdina and Rabat
Three Cities
Victoria
Palace Armory
Palace Rooms
Saluting Battery
St. Johns Co-Cathedral
Copenhagen
David Collection
National Museum
Glyptotek
A. C. Perch
St. Georges Band Club
Food
Flowers
High Tea at A. C. Perch's. The tea was for my wife-that type of
thing isn't my cup of tea (hehe). I will admit it was fun and let me eat petit fours for the first time in my life.
From the trip report...
Picture the wildest rave you can imagine. Then multiply it by 10. That still doesn't describe the scene we saw. Blasting music, floats, people dancing everywhere, everyone in costumes-and this was "kids" night so there were babies in strollers along with tweens and teens. This isn't to say there were no adults - there were plenty. And everyone was dancing, laughing, drinking (NO drinking age in Malta), and partying hard.
But this wasn't everything. There was "performance" art. A group of guys in tight gold short-shorts and nothing else pulled people from the crowd and laid them on a table and covered them with baby powder, another group set up a living room complete with TV in the middle of the street, another group went about smashing computers and other electronics, another group was painting the street, another group set up a grill and had a tailgating party, etc, etc.
This makes it sound chaotic - which it was - but it was also very mellow. Everyone was having fun and no one was bothering anyone else. Everyone was doing their own thing and just having a good time. We ending up staying for a few hours. When we eventually left it was about 2am and the party showed no signs of slowing down. The energy levels were the same as they had been for the past few hours. We couldn't stop looking at everything.
Videos
Carnival Carnival (Steve drunk) Carnival Carnival (bar with amazing pizza) Carnival
Picture the wildest rave you can imagine. Then multiply it by 10. That still doesn't describe the scene we saw. Blasting music, floats, people dancing everywhere, everyone in costumes-and this was "kids" night so there were babies in strollers along with tweens and teens. This isn't to say there were no adults - there were plenty. And everyone was dancing, laughing, drinking (NO drinking age in Malta), and partying hard.
But this wasn't everything. There was "performance" art. A group of guys in tight gold short-shorts and nothing else pulled people from the crowd and laid them on a table and covered them with baby powder, another group set up a living room complete with TV in the middle of the street, another group went about smashing computers and other electronics, another group was painting the street, another group set up a grill and had a tailgating party, etc, etc.
This makes it sound chaotic - which it was - but it was also very mellow. Everyone was having fun and no one was bothering anyone else. Everyone was doing their own thing and just having a good time. We ending up staying for a few hours. When we eventually left it was about 2am and the party showed no signs of slowing down. The energy levels were the same as they had been for the past few hours. We couldn't stop looking at everything.
Videos
Carnival Carnival (Steve drunk) Carnival Carnival (bar with amazing pizza) Carnival
Pictures from around Copenhagen
Not a lot to see here...we weren't all that impressed. The last photo shows some "historical" graffiti.
General photos from Malta and Gozo.
These are all actual TWO WAY roads we drove on. One road, on a cliff, was too scary to take photos of.
Tony Dyson, the man who designed R2D2 and the Facehugger from Alien, worked with Queen, John Cleese, Steven Spielberg, and a bunch of others.
Read the trip report for how I met him and more info.
This is the Palace Armory in Valetta.
These are the Palace Rooms in Valetta.
The pics of the church outside is not the church shown on the inside pics. The former cost money to go into and the later was free.
If you want more background on these pics and the people in them, please read the trip report.
Our room had a balcony that overlooked the beautiful Xlendi Bay. The bay is tiny - you can walk from one end to the other in about 3min. But one side has a cliff with stairs that eventually lead down into some caves.
In addition to the bay, you can see pics of Ta Nona. In a couple of the pics you can see Steve stealing beer from behind the bar.
Our room had a balcony that overlooked the beautiful Xlendi Bay. The bay is tiny - you can walk from one end to the other in about 3min. But one side has a cliff with stairs that eventually lead down into some caves.
In addition to the bay, you can see pics of Ta Nona. In a couple of the pics you can see Steve stealing beer from behind the bar.
The David Collection, has an Islamic collection that isn't just the best Islamic collection in the world, it is the best religious collection in the
world. The items on display are staggering and range from textiles to pottery to jewelry to money to weapons to burial artifacts to manuscripts to
just about anything you can think of that is remotely related to Islam. Additionally, the display is arranged so as you move from room to room you
move chronologically through the history of Islam and each period has text describing in great detail what was going on in the world with Islam for
those dates.
If that wasn't enough there are kiosks scattered throughout that will give you in depth information about virtually any Islamic topic and they are arranged in ways to guide you easily through the information.
Lastly you are given an iPad that you stick under each display and it tells you all about what you are seeing.
This is one of those things that you need to see and experience for yourself. Tripadvisor rates this as the number one attraction in Copenhagen and they are 100% correct. Best of all it is free.
Unfortunately we don't take photos very well. Looking at the below and remembering how items actually looked, we realize this is a poor representation. But it was the best we could do.
Of special note are pictures 3 (and 2 which describes it), 21, and 24.
The last photo is from the museum, but isn't part of the Islamic collection...it is just pretty.
If that wasn't enough there are kiosks scattered throughout that will give you in depth information about virtually any Islamic topic and they are arranged in ways to guide you easily through the information.
Lastly you are given an iPad that you stick under each display and it tells you all about what you are seeing.
This is one of those things that you need to see and experience for yourself. Tripadvisor rates this as the number one attraction in Copenhagen and they are 100% correct. Best of all it is free.
Unfortunately we don't take photos very well. Looking at the below and remembering how items actually looked, we realize this is a poor representation. But it was the best we could do.
Of special note are pictures 3 (and 2 which describes it), 21, and 24.
The last photo is from the museum, but isn't part of the Islamic collection...it is just pretty.
