Day 5 Tuesday, Valletta

[picasaView album=’AIDA05′ directview]Again, I made it before applying to be on the top deck and watch, as the giant ship in the port of Valletta very elegant made a 180 ° turn and gently anschmiegte on a small boat over to the dock in slow motion. Here we decided to also, to make an exploration on your own.
As we left the ship towards the port output target, expected us 2 cute Maltese girls and wanted to freight us a siren on tourist-trap. Actually, a good institution, because you have almost a day ticket and can permanently take a bus route in a circle and at any time, and again descend.

In a chat told me the girl, that they “Malti” speaks and this is a mishmash of Italian, English, should be and Arabic. It was still nachgeschoben, that they all naturally 3 Dominant languages, English is of course always the best, better than Enlgand.
No matter, I politely excused myself and we target the output to. Immediately came the inevitable taxi driver to us and pushed us a cassette into the ear and babbles us fully, although we do not actually noticed him, even more simply walked quietly. When I expectant despite repeated significant and louder “NO PLEASE” had no success getting rid of the blowfly, I stopped, looked him deep in the eyes and asked him in a fair, easily irritated, genervten Ton, which part between NO and he would not have understood PLEASE.

He did but then got it and had grumbled from us.
We then were of a self-selected taxi driver, was also very flexible on the price, bring to a ferry dock, which in turn brought us to a mooring, from where a harbor cruise was started.

The harbor tour was very impressive, because our small bay Bootchen each export to the rear Zipfelchen. The old historical significance of this island is then the basis of the old buildings, Churches, Castle very well illustrated. From the Crusaders to the present, every era has, they may even have been as short, left their mark. The name comes from the Punic name for refuge malet, The Greeks called the island Melita. Malta has been at the 21. September 1964 independent from the United Kingdom. On 1. More 2004 Malta became a member of the European Union and has since been their smallest state. To 1. January 2008 in Malta, the euro was introduced. Malta is supposedly the most arid country in the world. At the end of the harbor cruise we boarded a very old bus, as the stop signal had a cord on the ceiling, which left a jingle bell at the front with the driver.
After an adventurous, wild bumpy ride on a bus from the 50s, we went to the Triton Brunen from thence on foot to walk to the ship. After a long march through wonderful streets and facades with bay windows, times kept clean, times neglected, we came back to the ship, which is huge with the, clear, white facade urged forth between the old unreal street walls.