Mdina and Rabat

Today we are hanging out with Graham again. So we were up early and ready to go by 8:30am but we didn't meet Graham until 10:30am in Birgu Center to catch the bus. Our destination for the day Mdina and Rabat.

After about a 40 minute bus ride we arrived in Rabat, just outside of Mdina. Our first order of business was to get some pastizzi. These are pastries stuffed with either mashed peas or ricotta cheese. There are a few other flavors but these are the ones we tried. And we tried them from the place in Malta that has been voted the best most often - The Crystal Palace (aka Is-Serkin). We really enjoyed these and they were the perfect little snack.

After eating our pastizzi we crossed the road and headed to the gates to enter Mdina. Mdina is known as "The Silent City" and is completely walled in. We entered the city and walked around for a while. No one seemed interested in doing anything, so we just walked around. The city is beautiful and there are great views of the surrounding area from Bastion Square. I took lots of pictures of the city. I loved the small alleyways that connected the city. I even took lots of pictures of door knockers - some of them were amazing. After an hour or so we left Mdina and walked over to Rabat.

In Rabat, Thomas and I decided to go to Domvs Romana. This is a ruined Roman era house just on the boundary between Mdina and Rabat. Thomas and I spent about 50 miniutes at the ruins and walking through the museum. The history was interesting and museum had nice exhibits. We left the museum and we still had time before we were meeting up with the others so we decided to walk around Rabat for a while. We walked down some beautiful, narrow streets, visited a church and stopped in a few shops. We returned to the meeting place about five minutes before the others arrived. When we were all together we walked over to the bus stop to make our way back to Birgu.

Back at the apartment I decided to take a shower. The weather today had been all over the place - it was cold, windy, rainy, hot, humid and just a little while ago we had a major thunderstorm. We decided to stay in again tonight and just have sandwiches for dinner while Dave and Deanne had dinner with Jessica and Graham. Thomas and I watched a movie and then read for the rest of the evening.