Short days

Maltese lunch. Pastizzi and Cisk

It's taken a fortnight but today the shorts made their appearance. Last year I think I only wore jeans coming out and going home. This year it's been a bit different. Not as hot but generally warm and windy. Very windy at times and a bit wet on a few days but mostly at weekends and we don't get in the way at weekends. Too busy by far.

Today was hot. Last year sort of hot. And calm.

So our working week began with a boat trip. Hour and a half meandering in and out of the various harbours here. Glorious but a bit rubbly. Exceptionally pleasant.

No wind to speak of but the weekend has left a swell of a couple of feet which is enough to have stopped the Valletta ferry for three days. Our boat was very thinly populated. Mostly it was Japanese tourists running about getting in the way. Lovely trip. Our cleaner gave us the tickets from our landlady. Such a nice thing to do. Thank you.

Would we have spent €15 each for a harbour cruise? I'll leave that for you to answer!

Got back and took lunch on the balcony.
The afternoon saw frequent liquid replenishment.
Afternoon became evening,
Merlot as Valletta lit up.
Magnificent.