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First of all, thanks you everyone for your good wishes, stars and hearts on our Golden Wedding yesterday. We had a lovely day.
Today started slowly, it's about 6' cooler and a strong wind has blown up it's still over 30' though. We spent a couple of hours by the pool and generally hung around the hotel
This evening we headed into Valletta to eat. Our hotel is just outside the walls and has a steep uphill walk and around 70 steep steps to get to the square outside the city entrance. Fortunately they run a free shuttle up to the city gates(and back) every 20minutes until 8pm.
We make use of it into town but are happy to walk downhill back again.
Valletta is built largely of limestone and the fortifications are on an enormous scale as you can see in the blip. The church is the Basilica of Our Lady of Mt Carmel and dominates the skyline of the Unesco city. I loved the light on it. That is the traditional and famous view of the city taken from high on the walls by the Hasting Gardens. There is another shot of it taken from the other side(East rather than West) Showing the steepness of the roads, they must burn though a lot of clutches here! The sunset is looking over our hotel and across to the Northwest tip of the island.
The extra has another sunset because I couldn't choose, between them . The plinth by the walls used to have a 79foot column on it, but it was struck by lightning about 40 years after it was erected. There are lots of similar plaques and memorials around the city, souvenirs of Malta turbulent past.
It's strange seeing the red Royal mail post boxes around the town. There are bt phone boxes too a reminder of the British connections. This one is at the start of a street of steps leading downhill parallel to the street where the Basilica is. You need to be fit to live here.
The final shot is of the little restaurant where we've eaten a couple of times. A limited menu but everything freshly cooked .