Mooning around the Mediterranean

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Now views of the garden..

 

 

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The wing that has been sold off.

 

Now we go outside.

 

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An overgrown grove of olive trees. but it is no longer a part of the property.

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A greenhouse including some orchids.

 

Now back to the bus to go off to the second garden. A lot of the houses have this outside the front door.

 

 

So the second garden. The orinal palace is now the President's home.

 

Sadly we miss this event.

 

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A tree used in the dence of Malta in ancient times. Quite difficult to climb.

 

And it's fruit.

 

 

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And back on the bus for the third garden - the Upper Baracka Gardens where the garden is definitelynot the major attraction.

 

Past a vineyard in Valetta.

 

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Not much of a garden but the views are great.

 

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There were more flowers in the Lower Baracka gardens.

 

 

 

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Back to the Moon.

 

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The last of Valletta.

 

Some smoke from the MSC funnels backing up the feeling that the problem is due to the engines. Her sister ship had engine problems last year.

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Dinner again at Atlantide. Now when we go into the restaurant the Asst. Maitre'D comes out, takes Rojaan by the arm and leads us to Table 35 which is served by her favourite waiter. Already a pillow on the couch where she sits. As well whenever I order a steak dish now I'm not asked how I want but it just comes rare.

So the night's specials.

 

Karolina comes over with a glass of wine she thinks I would like but first I have to tell her what it is. I said well it is obviously a South american wine with one of my favourite types of grape. She knows I like my carmenere and indeed that is what it was.

 

We both had the teriyaki glazed chicken thigh to start. Beautiful.

 

I then had the tomato soup but you have had enough photos of that.

Rojaan then had the salmon from the everyday menu and I had the veal chop just as I like it.

 

 

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The next day was a sea day. We won at trivia and I began my new putting technigue of drinking a G&T during the game. It works a treat.

I did also do 24 laps around the deck. Two sessions of 12 laps. Trying to keep my steps up.

Lunch at the grill and I had the steak dish which is thinly cut.

 

After all that excitement it was back to Atlantide for dinner. As usual new specials of the day.

 

Rojaan had the scallops entreefrom the main menu and I was very happy with my tuna Nikkei.

 

I then had a salad.

 

For Mains Rojaan went for the Spencer gulf prawns whilst I had the glazed duck.

 

We passed on desserts.

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2 hours ago, drron29 said:

 

A greenhouse including some orchids.

 

Now back to the bus to go off to the second garden. A lot of the houses have this outside the front door.

 

 

So the second garden. The orinal palace is now the President's home.

 

Sadly we miss this event.

 

Shopping with the  Chef today?

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54 minutes ago, drron29 said:

The next day was a sea day. We won at trivia and I began my new putting technigue of drinking a G&T during the game. It works a treat.

I did also do 24 laps around the deck. Two sessions of 12 laps. Trying to keep my steps up.

Lunch at the grill and I had the steak dish which is thinly cut.

 

After all that excitement it was back to Atlantide for dinner. As usual new specials of the day.

 

Rojaan had the scallops entreefrom the main menu and I was very happy with my tuna Nikkei.

 

I then had a salad.

 

For Mains Rojaan went for the Spencer gulf prawns whilst I had the glazed duck.

 

We passed on desserts.

Did you not want to show us the Rabbit dish?

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The next day we were in Souda Bay. I slept in and only had half an hour to showere,get dressed, have a very quick breakfast and head out on excursion. We started off heading to the Commonwealth War Cemetery. The Australians and New Zealanders were heavily involved in the battle for Crete in WW2. Once again let down by the British Command. Even though they knew the German plan they left a lot of the force at the harbours Thus giving the German paratroopers a better chance of securing airfields which they did although they had a large number of casualties.

First some scenery on the way.

 

And the cemetary.

 

What I didn't know was that there were more than twice the number of New Zealanders that died here than Australians. This next picture is about a third of the NZ section of the cemetery.

 

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On 4/25/2023 at 3:54 PM, Mr Luxury said:

I can still see that the pizza is burnt despite the basil leaves.😁

Just the way I like it. Well done and oily.  

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Can't help being a little overwhelmed visiting a war cemetery and noting how young most were.

 

Now off up the mountain to the Agia Triada monastery.

 

 

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The Monastery.

 

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Their museum of priestly garb.

 

And icons.

 

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Now the monks also made wine and olive oil so down to that museum next.