So, this morning we woke to a sunny day in Valletta. So it was breakfast on the rear deck in the sunshine, and then off to explore the town and to find some Wi-Fi.
I seem to have been having a sort of technical disaster this cruise.I've brought a netbook and my tablet with me, but no matter how I've tried, I've had real difficulty loading the blog. Preparing pictures and text has been easy enough, but loading it up to my blog site has been just about impossible. So today we needed to find some free Wi-Fi which would give us time to work out what was going wrong. .
The first thing we decided to do was take the lift from the port level up to the city. It costs a euro, but it's free if you are over 60 apparently.
The lift takes you directly to the Upper Barracca Gardens, is a wonderful park like area with a fantastic view of the harbour, and the Saluting Battery Museum. They fire the Salute at 12 noon with much pomp and ceremony, and much to the delight of the tourists.
We found fast, free Wi-Fi in Eddies, a restaurant near the Cathedral, where we established the reason for all my problems..... Windows 10 and Edge. Once we'd worked that out, I was able to upload three blog posts at once.
And then we took our walk around the city. It really is quite lovely. There is so much lovely old architecture and so many wonderful churches. Modern structures are very sympathetic with the old city and all in all it makes for a very good wander. Especially if you like shopping.
All too soon it was time to get back to the ship, to get lunch, (the chefs were cooking out on deck today) and then get ready for Peter's class. It went very well, and then it was a very relaxed afternoon and evening.
Tomorrow we will visit Sicily. Palermo to be exact. Another day to look forward to.
I seem to have been having a sort of technical disaster this cruise.I've brought a netbook and my tablet with me, but no matter how I've tried, I've had real difficulty loading the blog. Preparing pictures and text has been easy enough, but loading it up to my blog site has been just about impossible. So today we needed to find some free Wi-Fi which would give us time to work out what was going wrong. .
The first thing we decided to do was take the lift from the port level up to the city. It costs a euro, but it's free if you are over 60 apparently.
The lift takes you directly to the Upper Barracca Gardens, is a wonderful park like area with a fantastic view of the harbour, and the Saluting Battery Museum. They fire the Salute at 12 noon with much pomp and ceremony, and much to the delight of the tourists.
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| We loved these little taxi cabs buzzing around the city, They all had names like "Barbie". |
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| Inside the St Francis of Assisi Church |
All too soon it was time to get back to the ship, to get lunch, (the chefs were cooking out on deck today) and then get ready for Peter's class. It went very well, and then it was a very relaxed afternoon and evening.
Tomorrow we will visit Sicily. Palermo to be exact. Another day to look forward to.
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