A storm blows into Malta for the weekend and will be here until early next week. The daytime temperatures are forecasted to be only 13-15C (55-59F) with nightly lows of 9C (48F). That in itself isn't so bad, but the wind is out of the northeast at 27-30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph and a 60-80% chance of rain. Aside from the temperature, it feels a little like Mary and George's wedding and hurricane Joaquin.
We wake Saturday morning to find that all the beautiful sliding glass doors and windows in our flat have a drawback - it's chilly and there's a decent breeze blowing through the living space. William starts up the gas space heater and the room warms up....a little.
We wake Saturday morning to find that all the beautiful sliding glass doors and windows in our flat have a drawback - it's chilly and there's a decent breeze blowing through the living space. William starts up the gas space heater and the room warms up....a little.
 | We decide that we will be staying in much of the weekend. This gives us some time to work on photo's and the blog and to do some reading. By mid-day Saturday the waves are crashing strongly against the jetty outside our flat. However the rain has let up for a bit. We take the opportunity to go out for lunch, walking the 10-15 minutes to Buggiba Square and it's assortment of restaurants. Understandably none of the outside tables are occupied. Victoria Restaurant is our chosen spot partially because they have heaters placed throughout their enclosed tented area. |
The assortment of pizza's catch our eye. William orders a Meat Eaters while I choose Parma and Arugula. The pizza's are amazing. William's is like nothing he has had before. It contains mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, steak and ribs with an egg in the middle. Mine is also wonderful with fresh parma ham, mozzarella, arugula and lots of freshly shaved parmesan. We return home pushing against the wind with boxes of leftover pizza and just before the next blast of rain.
The strong winds and occasional rains continue through the night and into Sunday. Sunday morning I try to access the NFL network on my iPad and laptop for a replay of the Green Bay - Arizona game, but am disappointed to find out that ComCast is not supported. I scan through the stations on the TV but Fox Sports seems to be showing sports that Europeans are interested in - soccer followed by downhill skiing. Drat! I watch the highlights of the Green Bay game and see the score on NFL.com. 😩 A few hours later I re-check Fox Sports and there are replays of the Saturday NFL games. Yeah! I cheer for Green Bay, but amazingly the outcome is the same as what NFL.com has published. 😠 Sunday evening we watch the Panther-Seahawks game live on Fox Sports.
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