It was an early start, leaving home at 7am to get the bus to the airport. Because of coronavirus the buses aren’t running as frequently so I had to get one earlier than I normally would have.

I had plenty of time at the airport so took a while eating breakfast and drinking coffee – as it meant I didn’t have to wear a mask.

The flight was on time and it was pretty uneventful. I had a little snooze and read a book on my kindle.

As we started to descend you could see the island of Malta and surrounding islands.

At the airport the bags came through pretty quickly and Jimmy picked me up from the airport (arranged via air bnb host). On the way to the apartment he gave me a mini tour of the area of Valletta we are staying in.

Nicola had already arrived at the apartment earlier in the day, it was so nice to actually be with each other rather than over zoom or WhatsApp.

We had a couple of drinks on our rooftop terrace overlooking the grand harbour.

There is a canon just above where we are staying and this went off at 4pm, made me jump even though I knew it was going to happen.

Later on we wandered into the city centre – its up quite a lot of steps but the streets are really pretty.

We had a lovely salmon and prawn pasta dish at D’Office as well as some Maltese wine and on the way home we stopped off at The Pub for a g&t! Apparently, Oliver Reed drink himself to death at this pub during the filming of the Gladiator movie.

It was a lovely evening and the moon was out too!