How do you call this new year? Twenty ten or two o one o or twenty one o? This question was not on my mind as we welcomed the new year in in the tiny town of Santa Lucia on the island of Gozo in Malta. With our close friends we feasted on great wine (hint, ‘95 vintage, French, sweet and consumed with foie gras) and food and at midnight ran outside to see the fireworks and celebrate with the villagers. Now I know how the first man felt stepping on the moon – alone in the silent darkness!
If the rest of the year can continue this calm I will be very happy!
Malta and Gozo I can highly recommend for a family, historical or hiking vacation even in winter. We were swimming in the Med on New Years Eve and Day (it was darn cold but my daughter and I could not resist showing the Swedes how tough Aussies can be!). Walking around the world’s oldest man made structure excited our children more than we expected and the 7000 years of history has a lot more to offer than the local wine but we stocked up at a good wine store in Malta before sailing off for Gozo.
I promise this year to write more often and hope to hear from you more often too.
Cheers
Mark
Twenty ten or two thousand and ten, both correct – Miss Linguist
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I have been saying twenty ten but it is so weird I can’t seem to wrap my head around that it is actually twenty ten.
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Tvåtusentio.
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I envy your trip to Gozo and Malta. I just finished re-reading a wonderful series of novels by the marvelous Scottish historian Dorothy Dunnett, who sets several of the adventures on Malta, Gozo, and Constantinople. Very good reading.
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