Some may say I'm a giving person. They could be right - I have given William my cold! While he suffers through it we are staying close to our flat.
A 400 meter walk along the seafront Promenade takes us to the Buggiba Bocci Klabb. It appears that there are regular games at the club. We stop by mid-morning, mid-afternoon and early evening to see the "action". On warmer days a small crowd gathers in the seats surrounding the field to watch the play. Bocci is a popular sport in Malta, and there are more than 30 teams which take part in a national league. It looks like a fun way to socialize and have a little friendly competition.
A 400 meter walk along the seafront Promenade takes us to the Buggiba Bocci Klabb. It appears that there are regular games at the club. We stop by mid-morning, mid-afternoon and early evening to see the "action". On warmer days a small crowd gathers in the seats surrounding the field to watch the play. Bocci is a popular sport in Malta, and there are more than 30 teams which take part in a national league. It looks like a fun way to socialize and have a little friendly competition.
Further down the Promenade another 5-10 minutes is Buggiba Square. The main attraction here is the assortment of restaurants. There's Fat Harry's Pub, where we have enjoyed huge hamburgers, Victoria's with their delicious wood-fired pizza's and home made pasta's (as well as other entree's), Bistrotecca where William devoured a decent rib-eye and I had duck breast as well as another 6-8 restaurants.
 | Along the Promenade one kilometer from our flat we find the Malta National Aquarium. Their restaurant features a huge mobile of a school of fish overhead and delightful food. An indicator of the quality is the number of business people who choose to lunch here. After we have a snack we enjoy meandering through the exhibits and tanks which have been laid-out to highlight areas of Malta including the Blue Grotto, St. Paul's Bay and the Grand Harbor. There are also other exhibits showcasing oceans and seas around the world. It's a fun 90 minutes. We even see a fish with legs! |
The Oracle Casino has been calling to William since we spotted it during our first week in the Malta. It also is reached via the Promenade. On a walk one day I overheard some ladies talking about the nice lunch for €5 at the Casino. This gives us a perfect excuse - we'll go for lunch and stay a bit to play. The lunch turns out to be a good deal if you stick with their prix fixe, otherwise we find it to be of slightly better than average value. We wait a bit longer than normal for our food, but to their credit the meals arrive piping hot.
After lunch we check out the small casino and find the only blackjack table in the non-smoking section. With minimum bets at €5 we are able to play for quite a while (we played with three dealers) and lose €28 between us. Alas, we would have been up just a bit if not for the last ten minutes. Drat! 😏
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