Hoorah! It turns out that there IS a computer in Malta that I can use for half an hour for a mere 1 Euro 20 Cents (I dunno where the euro symbol is on the keyboard). Getting here was fine, early morning but I just drank loads of coffee to stay awake, unlike the others I didn’t sleep on the plane so I was a bit more stressed out than the others. I thought about skipping out on the first night’s plans, but I am SO glad I didn’t.
I had heard that the Black Eyed Pease were playing Malta a while back on the day we arrived, but assumed that we wouldn’t have time or be in the right place to go see them. Then when we landed, the guy driving the coach to the hotel told us that there was a massive MTV Malta Party (Isle of MTV) going on that night (we arrived about 11am) in Valletta (the capital city) a half hour bus trip away. We went and, much to my surpise, caught the end of a set by Metro Station (who I love), Lady GaGa (who I also love) and after we left to get the bus back we could hear the Black Eyed Peas. Given that I didn’t sleep yesterday, that was the most suprising, long and fantastic day.
The hotel is alright, I was really put out and depressed at first because me and Joe got the smallest room of us all, without a balcony and (until this morning) without a fan like the others. After I had a good kip I felt better about it and now I know I can live with it given that we spend most of the day either out, in the other’s rooms or at the pool.
We spent today at a craft’s village because we want to get finding crappy souvenirs out of the way before we waste the rest of our money. Tonight we’re either going to an Irish pub (Croucher’s idea because we can never drink beer in Horsham) or go to a Cocktail Bar, personally I’d rather the latter. Tomorrow we’ve booked to go to the port to go to Comino Island and go to Blue Lagoon, apparentely clear beaches.
The only issue, other than the sweltering heat that’s kind of effecting me more than the others, I’m fairly burnt, is that there’s a lot of us. Ten people is a big group and we don’t all want to do the same thing as each other. Earlier, when we got back from the Village, we couldn’t decide whether to go to the beach or the pool so half of us went one way and the rest the other. It will, no doubt, become a recurring thing but I don’t see it as really a problem, there’s enough of us that splitting off doesn’t leave one person alone and we all stay happy. We’re all there as a group of friends so maybe we should all be doing everything together (and we are doing a lot of stuff together) but it’s impractical.
I’ve heard that the UK had 3 months rainfall in just 3 hours, which strikes me as very good timing, we left the ending heatwave of England to join the perpetual heatwave of Malta.
I haven’t had a chance yet to investigate tech news, or make a start on 1984 (I read the first page and then Kym yelled at me to get in the pool) so not much of a post on that I’m afraid, if anything else of interest happens over the next few days I will update in one big post shortly before we depart.
Cocktail Time!