Malta in March 2018

To escape the cold weather in Germany for a short time, we decided to fly to Malta for a week in March. Despite the fact that it was already spring, there were still below freezing temperatures! It was time to change that.

We left from Frankfurt at 10 o'clock. Finally a humane time, but we were silly enough to plan our vacation during the Easter holidays, so apparently everyone in Germany wanted to fly away on that day. We arrived at the airport nearly 2.5 hours before departure and still almost missed our flight because we had to wait for over two hours in the security checkpoint line. By the time we finally made it through, boarding had already started according to our boarding pass and we had to run. We have flown many times before, but we had never seen Frankfurt Airport so crowded. Terrible! We were relieved when we were on the plane. After just two hours of flight, we already landed on the small island.

At the airport, we were picked up by our nice host, Neil, who runs the Akwador Guest House in Marsaskala, which we had booked for the entire week. The drive there only took 15 minutes, but it was quite adventurous due to driving on the left side of the road! The driving style of the Maltese people didn't really help either. We were really looking forward to getting our rental car tomorrow ;) Once we arrived safely at the accommodation, we were able to directly check into our cozy room. The Akwador Guest House is located right on the bay with a view of the water. Really beautiful! The whole property is wonderfully clean, small, and family-run.

Everything is within walking distance here, so we set off to explore Marsaskala right away. The town isn't very big, but it has everything you need. Several restaurants, shops for shopping, bars, and of course, the sea. It's not very warm though, only about 15 degrees Celsius and a quite fresh wind. It's still warmer than at home, but somehow not quite what we had imagined. We hoped it would improve a bit.

In the evening, we fell into bed quite tired, but we couldn't fall asleep right away because of the noise outside. It was Saturday night and people were out. Unfortunately, the house wasn't very soundproof, so even with the windows closed, we could hear people outside as if they were having a party on our balcony. Tomorrow, we would pick up our rental car, hopefully we would be fit enough for driving on the left side of the road!