At last the sun is shining

 This is my third day and I decided that I must get away from hotel.  First I walk up passed the bus garage to find the Laundry.  I do hate doing washing on holiday.  Located it so tomorrow's task is to find it again, this time with laundry.  Got back and waited for bus to Bugibba.  Got to bus garage only to find it was the one I had passed in the morning.  Never mind the sun was shining so I went to an outdoor cafe.  They had delicious apple pie and custard and while I waited got talking to two elderly English ladies on the next table.  They had lived in Malta for 25 years and said how much things had changed, and not for the better.  They also told me that the buses were not running to Bugibba because all the roads had been dug up.  Sounded a bit like Ely only more so.  If good weather holds tomorrow will take laundry then catch bus to either Sliema or Valletta.  Last night met an English lady for the second time who had come out on the same plane as me.  We had a long, chatty dinner together before we both retired to our rooms to watch something on our tablets as the only programmes on the TV in English are news programmes.


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