19th of April of 2022

For the following days, I woke up at 7:30am, deciding to go downstairs for breakfast at 8:30am and being ready by 9. The breakfast was simple: bread, tiny croissants, cheese, ham, fruits and cake. I ate the cheese and ham rolled up inside of a croissant and cake. (I drank only water.)

Something interesting that I found out the hard way, was that water was scarce and that if you needed to drink water, you should be prepared beforehand. I spent the first day with my metal water bottle and it was ... chaotic to say the least.

ANYWAYS

For our second day in Malta, we visited Mdina, the Old City. To get there, we had to get on two different buses, and I had to stay standing the whole trip because of how full the bus was. Mdina is an old city and had a gentle kind of beauty. We were graced by the presence and knowledge of a maltese guide to explain everything about the city, the history and Malta's culture. It was very enriching. Something interesting that he told us was the fact that flower gardens were banned because of the small quantities of freshwater. (Because Malta doesn't have any lakes nor rivers, freshwater used to come from their groundwater.)

The only instances where flowers were admitted, were when girls of age were looking to be married off, and those flowers were posted outside their windows to let all possible batchelors know: "Here I am. Ready for plucking". (Sorry, I just had to use that metaphor, and I KNOW, I know it's bad. Don't judge me.)

We visited many churches and we ate sandwitches and Maltese deserts! Dates! I ate three different kind of dates: coco, nutella and traditional. (To be honest, my favorite was the nutella one hahahahah)

There was a wood thingy that you see in movies where people are punished with being locked by the hands and head and where the simpletons could throw rotten salad and tomatoes that I tried out. And fortunately for me, it was something easy to get out of when i had my legs touched by a complete stranger without me knowing it was A COMPLETE STRANGER. *shudder*

It was so much fun... 👀 I was traumatized:

Afterwards, we visited a special church most known as Mosta Dome, The Sanctuary Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady, a Roman Catholic parish church and Minor Basilica. Called Mosta Rotunda. This church is unique because of an unexpected miracle, a bomb was dropped during the II World War, and rather than going off, it stayed intact!

We went inside and under it, where we saw the safe place people would go in to avoid bombings during the World War II.

We went back to the hotel that night, before going to the resturant. I chose to change clothes and take a bath later, just right before going to sleep. That dinner, we ate pizza! It was AMAZING. I loved it and I would definitely go back to Malta, if only to ask for the recipe hahahahaah

The restaurant's name is Luzzu, and here is the menu, pizza and fritters (maltese dessert, not that good in my opinion):

We went back to the hotel, but instead of going to sleep right away, me and my roomates decided to go against the law! And being the rebels that we were, we invaded the boys room. We played Uno, listened to songs and met some Italian girls from the room across the hall. We talked with them and found out that they were there for only a short while. We discussed the differences of our cultures and traded instagram information. Now I have a friend from Italy following me hahaha

SOME OTHER PHOTOS OF ME AND FRIENDS: