Saturday

Trip to Gozo. Leaving St Julian at 9 for Gozo island. Ferry took 40 minutes, seeing Gozo with its castles approaching was nice. There was also Comino visible and its Blue Lagoon. We took another local bus and went to see the west coast with the Azure Window. I took a boat trip through the cave to the Window. The trip took only about 20 minutes but it was amazing. The sea is so clear that there are corals growing there. I also saw some fossils in the sand stone on the coast.

 Later we visited Victoria the capital and its citadel. We did not have much time to explore everything but what I saw was amazing. At first I took a circular walk on the fortification and  I found a little arrow to the Power Magazine – a storage of power for canons. There were really nice children as volunteers and offered me to visit silos which were accessible through a tunnel. The iluminated tunnel in the sand stone was amazing but reaching the silos was fantastic. They were cut out in the stone perfectly. Smooth cylindrical walls and the illumination allowed me to see the silos as underground temples from prehistoric times. It was not like this, of course. The silos were medival containers of grain and water. However, when I got out I said:”Wow “ and immediately went inside to experience it once more. The thing is that whole Malta is overcrowded with tourists , the citadel also, and there was nobody in the tunnel and the silos. I still have the image of them inside.

 We went swimming to Xlendi bay. There were huge chalk cliffs like in England . It was easy to imagine that I was swimming under the Seven Sisters. Jitka fed the fish and they really came to nibble. We saw a dog warm out of the water. I got sunburnt a bit, but the trip was great. Only Spanish students complained that it was too hot and the air conditioning did not work properly (true). After dinner we went for a walk to try to find Pembroke Fort , where an international private school is placed these days. We found a lovely residential house – locals told us that it used to be barracks for British soldiers and now it is a comfortable dwelling for ordinary people.
 P.S Anna spoke about the” sponsors” of local university- there are 2000 students from Dubai and 2000 students from China at university and their states pay 25,000 Euro for each student per year.