Mdina

Today was very windy so we headed inland to the former capital of Rabat or in fact to its ancient neighbour Mdina. Mdina is a walked fortress city on top of a hill in the centre of the island. It was built in the 8th century and has never spread beyond its walls. It has a population apparently of 250 according to Mr Google.
Like Valletta it has enormous strong walls and fortification ditches.
We've visited before and today went somewhere new to us, former Benedictine Monastery which was for numbers rather than monks. It was rather lovely in it's simplicity. One of its sisters was beatified in 2001. The extra shows one of the dormitories. The main blip shows an extraordinary tall and unusually shaped clock which was in the Monastery.
The telephone box has been rather cleverly repurposed and is home to a defibrillator machine. What a good place for it I thought .
The brass door knocker was on one of the majestic doors, it's about 18" high , mind you the door was huge, you'd need a loud door knocker to hear it inside the house.
The yellow frame is something I've never seen in a public park in the UK, it's a wheelchair swing. Our children at school loved them. There is one at The Yard playground in Edinburgh and I can't think where else but I used to know of more.
The final, night shot, is of a beautiful sculpture by the ruined Opera House. You can see its pillars to the right. The statue is 23 feet tall and stands on a plinth. It's called A Palm Goddess for Malta and was erected in 2022.
Tomorrow is expected to be windy again, it's too windy to sit around the pool and a bit cooler (still around 30') so more exploring is on the cards.
The extra shows the outer walls of Mdina, the dormitory in the Monastery, and rather out of place, a wedding car outside our hotel. It's called a Beauford, which is an imitation vintage car designed for use at weddings. I'd never heard of such a thing, so I'll put a link here.
Beauford automobiles - Wikipedia https://share.google/wshVgrpnyAoymcmEY

The final image in the extra is taken through the front window of the bus and shows the aqueduct built by the knights of St John (probably not personally) which opened in 1615 and carried water to Valletta from Dingli and the hills. Large parts of it remain and it runs alongside the main road between Valletta and Mdina.