John Turner booked a special place for lunch. Ghar Lapni. The terrace hung out over the sea and small harbour .
The lunch was superb. Ferry from Sliema to Valetta.
Highlights of Malta holiday.
In many streets we saw cat feeding tables. Residents feed the street cats at these tables and in the late afternoon one sees the cats gathering for the dinner.
Electric Bicycles
were wonderful.
Traveled on an open bus South tour and saw this pretty fishing harbour.
John Turner and Pam Chapman-my birthday.
Medina the highest point in Malta
Medina was founded about 4000 years BC. The Catacombs were in use by 249 AD. by the Romans. The palace was built in 1370. The streets are very narrow and the windows on the streets very small. It is a walled city with 2 gates.
Our favourite house
Pretty street
Lovely roofscape
The length of the street to the corner is the flight of an arrow.
Malta, the first few days
Prince of Wales: We live in a flat in the building with the balconies. We use the gym and heated pool.
First, we settled in our spacious apartment.
Then we decided to view with the open-top bus.
This is the street where we live.
Mdina: built by each race that occupies Malta.
John Turner and Fiona took us to dinner in a fishing harbour.
Tia graduates with MA in Creative Writing and New Media
Tia, Eyal and I met the Burmans and Dinah and Verity at the Space museum in Leicester. A wonderful experience of space travel!!
Joseph in Space suit in the gallery. Tia, Eyal, Keith where we waited to enter hall. No rain!!!
Lunch with graduates and Prof Sue Thomas and Prof Kate Pullinger (I read The Mistress of Nothing)
Tia and Eyal’s house in Mill Hill redecorated
After a long but most comfortable flight with big seats and lots of leg room on Emirates (excellent food and service and power for laptop) I was delighted to see Tia at Gatwick. After easy train ride (easy change at Farringdon) we arrived in Monterey Close. But only for 3 minutes because I had to go to the chemist for an excellent massage with Nicky. I returned to the house and Tia had a hot foam bath ready. It was a great beginning of the recovery from 24 hours travel.
40 inch new TV in the bookcase.
The large sofa bed is comfortable for 2 people.
Kwa Maratani with Jon,Ian,Keith and families; Sept 2009
Keith, Laura, Joseph and I flew to Johannesburg to meet Jon where we hired cars and fetched Nancy from Midrand. We arrived at Kwa at the same time as Ian and Kate, Amy and Zoe who drove from the farm. We all settled in Cabanas 7,8 and 9 which overlooked the veld and waterhole.
Soon after arrival we checked the waterhole for animals. We saw elephants on 6 out of 7 days and some days 3 times on a day. On the veld in front of the Cabanas we watched zebras, warthogs, gnus, koedoe and birds. We spent 3 hours on a game drive lorry when we saw rhinos and lion. Every meal we ate outside at a large table.
Christopher and Elizabeth Roper and auntie Merle dined with us on Saturday. The chef prepared a fabulous buffet.
Every day was swimming weather. 
More Kwa Maratani
Ian, Amy, Zoe, Kate.
Ian, Amy, Zoe and Kate departed on Sunday. It was wonderful that they came down for the weekend.
The girls were delighted to meet their cousins Laura and Joseph.
On Sunday, Steve and Mieke lunched with us. It was great to see them looking so well and happy.
The zebras grazed on the veld next to us. Gnus and warthogs came and went.
We lunched in the park and enjoyed the drive especially when we saw the Rhinos.
