Monday, March 07, 2005

Gozo weekend break… finally!

This weekend was a total blast! Went to Gozo with Lars and Er. Woke up at bloody 7 am on a Saturday to catch the 9 am ferry (‘to make the best of it!’ as Lars in her “infinite wisdom”, put it…) but it was totally worth it!

Spent the weekend mostly reading, listening to Asian fusion tunes, partying and relaxing in the triple room of a 4-star hotel in Marsalforn. We also managed to get some exercise done as we went swimming (obviously in the hotel’s indoor pool, which wasn’t half as warm as I was hoping…) Saturday evening, after going for a pizza in Xlendi, the girls and I went to this club called XS where DJs Pierre Cordina and Carlo Borg Bonaci were mixing the decks, and we had a good, albeit somewhat baffling time! A couple of Gozitan specimen of the male sex tried to pick us up – as we gathered, after much mindboggling linguistic deconstruction, as we couldn’t understand what they were saying… They have a v strong accent there… ho hmmm.

We spent lots of time driving round Malta’s sister island, which is untainted by excessive over-urbanisation, traffic hell, etc. We managed to get lost a couple of times along our ‘road trip’ (I know it’s probably impossible for anyone to get lost in Gozo… it’s so small…)

Sunday we went to Dwejra for ice-cream, and started making our way to the Mgarr Harbour. When Er pulled the pre-paid return tickets our of my car's glovecompartment, we discovered that the liquid air freshener, which I had detached from the car fan (due to Er's asthma) had leaked all over the tickets! Gaaah! Fortunately the barcodes were still legible and after some explaining to the booth attendant and lots of embarrassed / hysterical giggling we managed to get through! By the time we got back home on Sunday afternoon, we were too tired to do much of anything!

I soooo needed a break… But it’s Monday again… Oh well!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you had a great outing on Gozo. And you have a neat blog. I'm so happy to see Maltese bloggers out there - I used to visit Malta a few years ago when I had a boyfriend who lived there, and back then it was very hard to find internet savvy people, or even internet cafés. :)
Soon I'll make my first trip to Malta in five or so years, and that's how I came across your blog. I'm doing a bit of research.

Cheers,
Lotta from Sweden

Anonymous said...

Hi,
I just want to say that I’m going to visit Malta too ( but not before September) and Your blog is very interesting guide to the Island. It’s a good reason to repeat my English too (I don’t want to know how many mistakes I’ll have made by the end of this short text :)). I hope that all of Maltese people are so friendly and humorous as You seem to be.
Greetings from Poland
Martin

Unknown said...

Hi Lotta! Thanks for your post, it was v nice of you! Sorry about the ex-boyfriend! But don't let him put you off the island! I wish you a very pleasant stay in Malta! Keep in touch!
Regards
N
girlaboutlife@yahoo.com

Unknown said...

Hi Martin,
Thanks for the post! Your English is actually very good! I hope you will also enjoy a very pleasant stay in Malta. If you want to keep in touch - which would be nice - email me!
Best regards
N
girlaboutlife@yahoo.com