Condense 'April Madness" Post - Part 1

So here the a few photos from Malta and the rest of my 'April Madness".




Before we lifted me and one of my cousins went onto a bus tour, the island is just stunning, and the harbours are simply amazing
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I love how the water is so clear, that you can see the little fishes swimming

 Then on my return home,  it was time to treat my boy to lunch and have a much needed catch up and gather myself for my next trip in a few days time.

I went back to Preston for a much needed catch-up for my besties, but the main thing was to attend my School Re-union.

Another life-long friend, we lost touch when I moved the Birmingham and it was lovely to see her again, and have lunch, before the bug re-union.

And what a re-union it was, it was the best and OMG! it was lovely seeing everyone again

I posted this photograph on my Facebook page and seeing that we are all now in our 50's now, the compliments we got where amazing ... and very much appreciated.  One guy said we hadn't aged, which was lovely to hear.

The day after the night before, we felt very ropey but we had to get out and about.

But it wasn't long before we ended up back at the friends, lying on the floor having a giggle about the previous night and just being us - love these girls.  Yes we had our sun-glasses on inside.

Then home and packed for my 10 crafting break in Derbyshire.

The space is perfect for us crafters to spread out.

it didn't take us long to un-pack and get our scrap on.

and have a laugh.

I'll be back soon.

Malta - Part 3

I did say it would only be 2 post, but I wanted to share more photos, so it might even go over to 4 blog post.

So one of the day my family decided that they wanted to stay by the pool and relax, and me being me just needed to get up and go and explore, so that is what I did, all on my own.

Here I am at the bus stop.  The Maltese people are very friendly, and as the island is small it is easy to get around.  The bus journey was only about 10 minutes to Mdina - The Silence City.

What a beautiful place it is, its a city with a fortress, please actually live here, there was a few cars and tourist horse and carriages, but mainly people walked around.

It even had its own Police station.

Most of the side road looked like this 

There was about 3 maybe 4 churches, all beautifully decorated

and I even managed to see a wedding taking place.    I had good time having some time to myself to explore and visit this site, definitely recommended.

As Mdina was closely by,  it didn't take me long to get back which gave me time to relax by the pool

I'm still struggling to catch up with my blog, so instead of doing separate post for my 'April madness" I going to condense what I've done on my next blog post.

Thanks for bearing with me,  see you soon.

Malta - Part 2 (Gozo)

Following on ... we had decided that we must go over the Gozo for the day, so we took the ferry across the water to the next island and went on a hop on and off tour bus, which is a great way to see most of the island and be told about what each area is about.

To say it was a cold wind was definitely an understatement, it was freezing, but I braved the wind to sit out and see more of the island.

One of the places I wanted to visit was the Azure Window, which was stunning,, and even had people walking along the top, which I did not do and had no intensions of doing.

But I did manage to get my photo taken with it in the background - result.

Then as we were waiting for the next bus I spotted a bay with this little boat, so I went down to take a photo,

Now this is so not like me, but I'm in that frame of mind that I better do things and have no regrets, so before I knew what I was doing, I was sat down in the boat, putting a life jacket on and making my way thought the caves ...

The boat trip lasted 15 minutes, and it was well worth it, going through the caves was stunning, the sea was blue and looks so inviting, the coral around the edge was the most amazing colours, and at one point we could see divers under the boat exploring the sea bed.  

I did try and get photos of the colour of the sea, the coral but as the boat didn't stop I found it really hard, and then I thought to myself that I was missing it all, trying to get the perfect photo and messing with my camera, so I put it  down and enjoyed the ride.

If you ever go to Gozo - I would definitely recommend taking this boat trip.

I'll be back shortly with more Malta photos.

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Malta 2016 - Part 1

My aunty turned 80 at the end of March and my cousin and I took her to Malta for a 5 day visit, my cousin had booked the hotel it being a spa hotel so that if my aunty didn't want to leave the hotel then there would be nice facilities for us all to relax in.


Well my Aunty was up for everything that we wanted to do, she is definitely a very young 80 year old, she has her aches and pains but she as always made the most out of life, when my mum died suddenly at 65 - not only did it shocked us all but it put everything in to perspective that life is definitely too short and it needs to be lived as best you can.

So here are a few photos

my cousin had arranged for the cabin crew to bring my Aunty some champagne when we were flying out, which she loved.

we arrived to temperature of 21 degrees, and were where ready to make the most of the weather whilst we were there.

The first look of the hotel, was very impressive.

Our rooms where large, clean and very comfortable.

We had arrived shortly after lunchtime, but we had a meal on the plane so wasn't that hungry, so we opted for Afternoon Tea to have before we had our evening meal.

then we had a wonder around the hotel, before we went back to our rooms, this is the outside pool area, two large pools but both were freezing, and I did want to go in but they were way too cold.

In-door pool area.

Then it was time to have our evening meal, the hotel had 3 restaurants and we choose the Rickshaw Thai restaurant, and boy was it a great choice,

This was our starter to share between us ... it was so yummy !!!

After being completely full with our meal, we returned to our room and the staff had left us some chocolate cake and champagne, which was lovely.   The champagne was lovely, but as I don't eat chocolate cake I had to take my families word that it was really nice.

We had a lovely breakfast in this amazing restaurant

then it was time to head out and about to see some of the Island, and our first stop was Valetta - where Aunty decided that she wanted to go on a horse and carriage around the area, well it was definitely not how I would have wanted to see the area, but up we all go and off we trotted.

I managed to get a few photos along the way, but not many has the carriage was very rickety - lolx but it was an experience.

We then headed in the centre of Valetta, to take more sights and sit down with a cold beer and watch the world go by and soak up the atmosphere.

I'll be back shortly with Malta - Part 2.

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