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2/2/2016

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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.

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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.
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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!
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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.
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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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    Hi.  I'm Anne.  I wander around the world with William.


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