Day 5 started with a ferry trip to the nearby island of Gozo which was an adventure all by itself for some in our group :D It lasted only about half an hour and lets say that about half of it I stood in the toilet queue... Stay classy :D It was all because 2 of the 4 stalls were out of order... So the queue moved super slow... but if you gotta go you gotta go, blame nature. Anyway when we finally were done :D we noticed that people were standing near the doors waiting to go out. Shite! We had to run to our minibuses... ran down the stairs, but the door didn't open! Panic what to do what to do??? (at that time I didn't know that there is a huge red button hidden somewhere to open the door okay!) ran back up again, people were still on the ferry :D saw an elevator - second attempt to get to the car deck and hopefully not get stuck in the elevator (I am slightly afraid). When we were descending we could hear engines roaring. Oh god the cars are moving!!!! The doors open and the car deck is half empty... Looking around we spot our minibuses - the only ones still left on level two phew! Ran! and thanked the heavens that we made it :D Lol As I got into the minibus, I learned that the other one is still missing two polish girls. A minute later saw the blonde one also coming from somewhere and running to the bus. Oh yeah I'm not the only stupid one :D This fact always makes me happy :D So we had to get off the ferry and drove in front of the place where the pedestrians came off the ferry and luckily our last missing polish girl found us pretty quickly :) Everyone's safe, now let's explore Gozo!
Start with a typical Maltese fish market. Not our intention though and only our bus had the chance to see it since the others found a parking place and we were looking for one when we accidentally turned on a street where there is only one exit - the way we came in. And to top it off, it was a narrow street as well. Got to the end, where there were stalls with men offering fish and asked if there is any chance we could get out without having to turn around. Nope. So let the mission: lets do a u-turn with a minibus on a narrow street with cars parked everywhere, commence! :D The fish traders were really nice and helped us turn around with one actually coming out of the café to move his car so we would have more space. Aren't they nice and dark and cute :D? Yeah a lot of people were eyeballing us, fun times :D Crazy tourists :D Finally got out of there and found the other buses with whom we found a better parking lot. Got ourselves parked properly, got out of the car just to hear that oops we don't really have any time to be here and got back in the buses and drove off. Well that was useful :D
After a short drive we arrived in a small farm. Small being the keyword here :D It was as if I was transported to my childhood - the feeling that is - everything was so homely and far from the superclean lux stuff we expect to see in a tourism attraction. I was quite surprised as we saw the actual size of the farm though... no green grass anywhere, just fences and brick. And it was even smaller than my garden back at home. Not the best life for the rabbits (in cages), goats, sheep and dogs... but maybe that's the maltese way... I don't know... We all had to do a little bit work there - feed the sheep and clean up the brick floor. It was nice doing something for a change :D Was funny seeing some of the girls scream and squeal when the animals moved. And, we got to milk a sheep :O WOW it was sooo funny :D and weird. I got milk out after the first try! Yay natural :D Another tick to a box in a list of things to do and experience in life ;) After all that hard work we got a homecooked meal. Finally food (the previous days we had to cook for ourselves)!!! And so much! 2 chicken legs... oh god it was delicious but way too much! :D It was a bit hard to climb into the minibuses after ;)
The Azure Window - the most famous image of Malta probably. You could see it practically on every tourist brochure introducing Malta. And it was impressive. Especially with the blue sea and sunshine :) A remarkable view that us northeners rarely see (speaking for myself obviously). And next to it is the inner sea with its light blue water that is connected to the openwater through a tunnel in the cave. And yes before you aks - they do run boat trips in the tunnel ((insert sultry voice)of love). So cool!
Another food location? Noooooo! I'm too full! (how dare I say that???) Anyway I present you the Ta' Mena Estate: a family business that promotes agri-tourism. And makes their own wine!!!! Mmmmmm... wine :D We had a little tour of the property - saw olive trees, goats (now on real grass! :)), breathtaking view of the island and their vineyards, overly friendly dogs ( oh how I miss having a pet to cuddle with). And then!!! Wine tasting!!!! Accompanied by a truly gourmet snacks: Biscuits, tomato sauce, pesto, olives, cheese!!! And it was freaking delicious!!! Omg I've never been a fan or appreciated these little snacks ever but oh my god did they win me over :D Our end of the table had empty bowls in no time and we slowly started borrowing them from the other side :D (obviously those people can't appreciate delicious food! ;)) And we learned how to hold a wine glass properly, how to check if the wine is of good quality and approximately how much alcohol is in there. Trust me the next time we had a meal all of us tried those tricks! :D
Back to the ferry ( and yet again for some reason I was left alone to find the minubus :D but this time I was the first one there! ouyeah!) and hotel, where we had a little debriefing and a chance to work on our own research project - do the questionnaires that we were supposed to ask from the people on the street the next day.
After a short drive we arrived in a small farm. Small being the keyword here :D It was as if I was transported to my childhood - the feeling that is - everything was so homely and far from the superclean lux stuff we expect to see in a tourism attraction. I was quite surprised as we saw the actual size of the farm though... no green grass anywhere, just fences and brick. And it was even smaller than my garden back at home. Not the best life for the rabbits (in cages), goats, sheep and dogs... but maybe that's the maltese way... I don't know... We all had to do a little bit work there - feed the sheep and clean up the brick floor. It was nice doing something for a change :D Was funny seeing some of the girls scream and squeal when the animals moved. And, we got to milk a sheep :O WOW it was sooo funny :D and weird. I got milk out after the first try! Yay natural :D Another tick to a box in a list of things to do and experience in life ;) After all that hard work we got a homecooked meal. Finally food (the previous days we had to cook for ourselves)!!! And so much! 2 chicken legs... oh god it was delicious but way too much! :D It was a bit hard to climb into the minibuses after ;)
The Azure Window - the most famous image of Malta probably. You could see it practically on every tourist brochure introducing Malta. And it was impressive. Especially with the blue sea and sunshine :) A remarkable view that us northeners rarely see (speaking for myself obviously). And next to it is the inner sea with its light blue water that is connected to the openwater through a tunnel in the cave. And yes before you aks - they do run boat trips in the tunnel ((insert sultry voice)of love). So cool!
Another food location? Noooooo! I'm too full! (how dare I say that???) Anyway I present you the Ta' Mena Estate: a family business that promotes agri-tourism. And makes their own wine!!!! Mmmmmm... wine :D We had a little tour of the property - saw olive trees, goats (now on real grass! :)), breathtaking view of the island and their vineyards, overly friendly dogs ( oh how I miss having a pet to cuddle with). And then!!! Wine tasting!!!! Accompanied by a truly gourmet snacks: Biscuits, tomato sauce, pesto, olives, cheese!!! And it was freaking delicious!!! Omg I've never been a fan or appreciated these little snacks ever but oh my god did they win me over :D Our end of the table had empty bowls in no time and we slowly started borrowing them from the other side :D (obviously those people can't appreciate delicious food! ;)) And we learned how to hold a wine glass properly, how to check if the wine is of good quality and approximately how much alcohol is in there. Trust me the next time we had a meal all of us tried those tricks! :D
Back to the ferry ( and yet again for some reason I was left alone to find the minubus :D but this time I was the first one there! ouyeah!) and hotel, where we had a little debriefing and a chance to work on our own research project - do the questionnaires that we were supposed to ask from the people on the street the next day.
This is where the sheep from the first farm live and the place that we cleaned
From the outside you wouldn't guess in a million years that it is a farm
Do you know what this is?
Ta' Mena Estate also had a goat, named Polly - so cute
The view from Ta' Mena
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...
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