In a perfect World

We started our adventures in Senglea with evening drinks and dinner on the water front with Rols and Kevin – Trudi and Russell enjoying the first beverage

Waking up at 7am this morning, the body clocks are finally back in sync, Trudi and Sue embarked on their early morning walk to explore their new town of Senglea. Sue sporting a very black little toe from falling down the stairwell last night, thankfully only a sprain not a break!

Sunrise at Gardjola Garden lookout, sporting the leopard skin shorts as no athletic shorts were packed. and views of todays cruise ship that just arrived in port for the day.

Across the Grand Harbour to the gates of Valetta (the capital city of Malta)

To the ports where the oil rigs and other superyachts are in for servicing

Having left Russell in peace to have his breakfast, we  returned at 8am for our morning coffee and toast….already hot outside and looking forward to the coolness of our airconditioned apartment.  However not for long…the electricity went off! No Toast! No Aircon! No Internet or lights! and warming up very quickly.  We contacted the owners who said they “would get on to it” and off we went to Vittoriosa for our morning coffee in the square, fully confident that by the time we returned all would be sorted.

The Band Club, and punters enjoying their morning coffee or beer!

Very pleasant, and the next stop was Lidl (the Pak n Save of Malta) to stock up on our supplies for the week. I think the checkout lady thought we were opening a Liquor store as the bulk of our shopping was wine and beer (which is very cheap at Lidl).  Sue managed to drive home without a wrong turn and snatched a park in front of the apartment to unload, which was very fortunate as we had some very heavy bags.  And the lift was working so we assumed (incorrectly) that the power was all sorted as several hours had elapsed.

Still no power, we threw the perishables in the fridge as quickly as we could (to keep the cold in) and it was pretty uncomfortable in our now very warm apartment. The said owners were once again contacted, and were out at lunch. Carmen, our neighbour on the deck opposite (and new Maltese friend) told us to call back and be “Tough” – so we did yet again.  Russ decided on a lie down, and Trudi and Sue wandered to the point to to have a dip in the harbour to cool off (both physically and mentally!

At which time Sue made yet another phone call to the appartment owners and the phone ran out of credit.  However, they did realise that these travelling Kiwis were not going to leave them alone, and swelter in the heat and darkness for the night. They subsequently rang Russell back (he also had left several messages) and advised him to flick a switch in the entrance and all was fixed.  This could have been achieved 6 hours earlier and Sues phone credit may not have run out!  Sue and Trudi headed back, now nice and cool, and made a unanimous decision that a long tall rum and coke was needed at the waterfront bar on the way back after powerless day!

Tonight, as our food and drinks are now nicely chilled, and so is the appartment with the aircon in action,  it may be a night in and we will throw a light dinner together.  Tomorrow we venture across the harbour to capital city, Valletta (by ferry)….. Three “Cool” Kiwis in a happy place once again.