Thirsty?

Yesterday evening after coming back from the beach we found in our balcony this pigeon. It was not scared of us cause it did not move, we realised that the poor thing was probably thirsty and tired. It chose our balcony for one reason we had a bucket full of water from the air condition pipe. I couldn't get a good photo of it as of the position it chose to stay for her rest.

more Mgarr and Gozo shots

The first photo shows the harbour from a distance and the other photo is a continuation to the first photo to the right side.

Sunday today is the day of rest, so I hope you will all have a relaxing and safe day.

Mgarr Harbour Gozo

Mgarr, Gozo.


I wish you all a lovely weekend.

Crossing from Malta to Gozo

Crossing from Cirkewwa malta to Mgarr Gozo, here are a couple of photos showing the Cirkewwa side of the Harbour, tomorrow I will show you the Gozo Harbour.

Northern Malta , landscape

Yesterday my family and I went on a day trip to the Island of Gozo. This gave me an opportunity to get some photos of the northern part of the Island and Gozo itself. The weather was very hot and humid in the morning and lense of the camera kept getting foggy!! These two photos taken from Mellieha showing the landscape and country side of the northern part of malta.

Info. Birzebbugia is at the southern end of Malta and to cross up to Cirkewwa which is at the northern end takes approximately 50 minutes depending how one drives. Malta is not a big island. If you google earth it you can see how big it is or small for that matter. I must add though that even though this island is small it is rich in history and culture ........ and sun too!! Good day everyone.

Fireworks Championship - Mqabba

St. Mary's Club Band of Mqabba, Malta this year entered for the first time the world fireworks championship known as Caput Lucis Festival, held in Rome Italy and Won first price with flying colours!! Taking part in this festival where China, Japan, Italy, Spain, England, Romania and Slovenia. Well done Malta. This display of fireworks was once again shown yesterday at the Mqabba village for their Festa, 'Santa Marija'. Being tipped off by my dear friend I went to see the display yesterday evening at 10pm and tried to capture as much as I can in photos. I took over 52 photos but obviously can't post all so I will try and limit to a small number of photos.

300th Post!!!!

Today is my 300th post!! Thank you all for visiting my blog and often leaving comments.

For this I am posting two photos taken yesterday from my camera. Earlier this year I posted a photo of the prickly pear tree, now here is the prickly pear tree in full bloom with the fruit ready to be cut (first photo) second photo is the fruit itself once the thick prickly skin is removed. The fruit has a lovely taste and must be kept in the fridge for a more refreshing taste.

Some shade please and a small break thanks !!

Well for today I decided to look up a bit from my archive photos. Did not have to go far when I found these photos. This man was working on the facade of a new building in our street back in early July. I like the way he created some shade. It is hard working in this heat. I wish you all a nice week.

Golden Bay - Malta

Today I give you Golden bay in full glory!! This is one of the most beautiful beaches you can find on the islands of Malta. It is untouched and I love the way it is nestled between rocks. I really must handed out to Laetitia this time for the lovely shots she has taken of this bay, well done and thanks. Good Sunday to you all.

'Tal-Mara'

First of all I wish you all a happy weekend. Today I am posting photos of the maltese coastline. This part is called 'Tal-Mara' meaning it belongs to the woman. I am afraid I do not know the reason behind the name, I tried to look it up but found nothing. Hope you enjoy the photos which are once again provided by Laetitia.

Ramla Bay Hotel

This is the Ramla Bay Hotel, found in the northern part of the Island. Once again I have to thank Laetitia for the photos as I haven't taken any photos. To be honest it has been so hot that I go out only to buy groceries in the morning come back home and then go out late in the afternoon for a dip at the beach.




Now this is not the Ramla Hotel pool no no!! This is another hotel, the Riviera hotel pool, which is also found in the northern part of the island.

Paola Square - Paola

 


Paolo what in Maltese we call 'Rahal il-gdid' meaning new town, well not so new really but hey that's just the name. Today I take you thanks to some photos taken by Laetitia to the centre of Paola. I had mentioned once that we have three towns where to go shopping for clothes , jewels shoes hifi etc... and these are Sliema (shown a photo in previous posts) Valletta and Paola. Of course there is also a small shopping arcade in Gozo , Malta's other island, and one can find the some shops in the local towns and villages but the big shopping can be done here. Paola is 15 minutes drive away from Birzebbugia it has no beaches. Paola's attraction apart from the shopping is the Neolithic Temples and the Hypogeum, which are found in the part called Tarxien. I might go and get some photos from there to show you these temples.

The Fernandes

This yacht 'The Fernandes' organizes day trips and even night ones to and from Comino. They do parties to at night with music, drink etc...oh and night dips to into the Mediterranean :). Food and drink are served on board this lovely yacht. I have to mention here that when I saw this photo which was given to me by Leatitia (and saved me as I have no photos yet!!) I got a nostalgic happy feeling as my husband and I , then my boyfriend got engaged and had a party on this yacht. We had sailed around the islands and I can tell you that it was a wonderful and unforgettable night. Thanks for this photo my friend!!

Welcome back!

Hello everyone, first of all I would like to thank you all for the great support and comments you have posted for my friend Laetitia and a greater thank you for Laetitia who did manage pretty well and posted some great photos to my blog, thank you , maltadailyphoto is very pleased :). Now that I am back I will start again posting myself , the only problem is that I have over 700 photos but non of them belongs to Malta so I will have to start my search again for Malta photos. I will be posting photos of the holiday on my other blog so feel free to stop there.

Garden of Serenity

First of all, thank you all who posted a comment yesterday for my fireworks photos. It is always so encouraging to have feedback on my photos.
Today I'm posting several photos of a public garden which is situated in St.Lucia, a neighbouring village. It is called "The garden of serenity" and it has an oriental style, something totally different to what we are used to seeing in Malta.
I had never been before to see this garden,although it's only 10 mins away by car, but thanks to dailyphoto, I decided to visit and take photos, and I was pleasantly surprised as it is a very beautiful garden and has a totally serene atmosphere, hence the name of this garden.

Fireworks Night

These are some of the photos I took of the fireworks display. Some are of the red club and some from the green club. I hope you get to enjoy them as much as we did last night.

Ferrying St.Peter to our shores!

Today I'm posting more than one photo so I can show you a part of our feast celebrations which I think is a bit unusual.
It has become a habit by both clubs to bring in the statue of St.Peter by boat to the shore and some boat owners follow the main boat as sort of a parade, waving flags,ballons and sounding horns. This particular club (we'll call it the red club) even had a band on a barge to accompany them.
The last two photos are of the statue being lifted to shore and the procession afterwards.
I must admit that I'm neither a follower of the red club nor of the green one but I go to both of their functions depending on when it's practical for me to go, so yesterday we were part of this boat parade on our boat.
I'll be posting fireworks photos tomorrow, as the display is tonight.

Banners and fireworks!

Today I'm showing one of our village streets decorated with banners during the week of our feast. Further up the road is one of the clubs I told you about yesterday (the one with a green balcony on the left hand side), their colours are green and yellow whilst the other club's colour is red.
The second photo is of some more fireworks being prepared by one of the clubs.

Preparing fireworks

I took these photos yesterday evening, while volunteers, (the man in grey tshirt is my favourite uncle,Tony) were preparing different type of fireworks which will be lit on Saturday evening. This display is by one of the local band clubs as we have two clubs nowadays which means a lot of showing off is done by both to prove who is the best. I must say I think it's silly of both clubs to do so and it would be a whole lot better to work together.
The second photo is of one finished display which is ready to be lifted upright before it is lit on Saturday. Hopefully I'll be able to take photos next Saturday of the fireworks in action.

St.Peter

This is our statue of St.Peter, it is being taken out for the procession on Monday. Before the procession starts, all the children who made the Holy Communion this year offer a flower to St.Peter during the opening service.