Arrival in Malta

We are now in Malta. Funny, but I don't see any falcons here...

After sweating it out all morning yesterday, the snow actually slowed down to virtually nothing by the time we left for the airport at noon. The flight was 2 hours late not due to the weather, but because we flew Alitalia and that is the norm.

The flight to Rome was 9 hours, 15 minutes in the usual cramped condition with no individual video (how come I never have enough points for an upgrade?), but we got to the connecting flight in plenty of time (of course, that being Alitalia as well, it was an hour late) and found two boys waiting for us. Fortunately, we had pictures of them, so we could recognize them.

The flight to Malta was an hour and we picked up the rental car. It is about 70 degrees here, which is a nice change. Unfortunately, all of the other drivers were on the wrong side of the road and did not seem to appreciate when I tried to show them the right side to drive on!

After a bunch of wrong turns on narrow streets all going the wrong way, we found the hotel and are all set to start touring tomorrow.