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Sunday market in Marsaxlokk
05443 days
Today we went to Marsaxlokk for the Sunday market. Here are some examples of things to buy:
Embroidered tablecloths
Locally grown vegetables
Spices and herbs
It was a lot of people here this sunday, more than usual. I guess it had something to do with the Christmas parade and entertainment! The kids were really good at dancing and the younger kids were so cute! 
Entertainment
Christmas parade
Christmas parade
Day trip to Valletta
05444 days
Kalle is working today, so I took the Anderssons to Valletta by bus. The plan was to check out the christmas sale, but we didn’t buy anything.
Old Malta buses
In Valletta they have a real Christmas tree
Andersson's at Upper Barracca Gardens
Let's check out the sale
We went to Grand Master's palace in the afternoon
I’ve finally been to Candynavia!
05448 days
What a day!
I decided to do some christmas shopping today. And so did the rest of Malta I think! I took the bus to Valletta and stayed there for several hours looking for christmas decorations and christmas gifts.
In the afternoon I went to Sliema to buy some clothes and more gifts. when I was done I had 3 big shopping bags in each hand. After spending 20 min waiting for the bus I gave up and found and started looking for a taxi that could take me to St Julians. By then I was really tired.
10 min and €12 later – candy heaven!
I just couldn’t resist! I try not to eat candy, but when I left the store I had bought at almost 1 kilo of Malaco smågodis (pick n mix), OLW chips and ostbågar. Yammy!
Candynavia
Swedish candy!
New slippers
05456 days
by Emma
in Living in Malta
My new slippers
I’ve been looking for slippers to wear at home for quite some time now. I didn’t want slippers with covered toes, ’cause then I feel to warm after a while. 99% of all cheap shoes they sell at the souvernir/stationary shops are flip-flops or similar, with a toe-thing… I like flip-flops but it’s impossible to wear both flip-flops and socks…
I found these slippers at the same place where I bought the ball for Gizmo’s birthday a month ago.
The stone floors are very cold now. And we use the heaters frequently. We had 17°c in the study this morning.
L´anza vs. my tangled hair
05460 days
by Emma
in Living in Malta
My favourite hair styling products!
I’ve had some big problems with my tangled hair the last few months. Usually a hair cut solves the problem, but not this time. It takes me 10, sometimes 15 minutes to comb through the hair after a shower, and it looks like half my hair ends up on the comb every time.
Before I moved here I bought some shampoo from my hairdresser and my hair has never looked or felt that good. So now I ordered some bottles from a Swedish web site (www.lyko.se) and they arrived a few days ago.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed and hope this will work!
Christmas cards are on the way
05461 days
by Emma
in Living in Malta
This morning I went to The bright spot (a small shop just around the block that sells about everything but food) to buy stamps for my Christmas cards. I bought amost all their stock of Europe stamps (sorry). The stamps are cheap here compared to Sweden. It is cheaper to send letters to Japan or USA from Malta than to send letters within Sweden!
This is an overview for normal letter, max weight 20g in Sweden/50g in Malta.
Local mail
Malta €0.19 (approx. 2.00 SEK)
Sweden 6.00 SEK (approx. €0.56)
Within Europe
Malta €0.37 (approx. 4.00 SEK)
Sweden 12.00 SEK (approx. €1.12)
Outside Europe
Malta €0.51 (approx. 5.50 SEK)
Sweden 12.00 SEK (approx. €1.12)
I must say that it felt very wierd to post the Christmas cards wearing t-shirt, in 18°C!
The cinema got evacuated because of bomb scare
05465 days
by Emma
in Living in Malta
In the afternoon I went shopping in Sliema and then Bugibba with Elaine and her friends. I bought 2 long-sleeve shirts and 3 tops. So now I have clothes for both Christmas and New Years Eve. After the shopping we had kebab at a new place in Bugibba and then she drove me back to Swieqi.
When we came to Paceville we saw a lot of people out in the street outside Eden Cinemas and the police had closed the road down to Bay street. We thought it was the Maltese movie “Maltageddon” that had premiere, but I read on Times of Malta that the cinemas had been evacuated because of something that might have been a bomb.
Eden cinemas briefly evacuated in bomb scare
Hundreds of people were evacuated from the Eden Cinemas in Paceville this evening because of what informed sources said was a bomb scare.
Policemen and soldiers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit were seen going in as people were pushed back from the street that runs between the cinemas.
The situation was described by people on the scene as being calm.
Patrons started being allowed back in after some 20 minutes.
Read article on Times of Malta
Evacuated people outside Eden Cinemas on Bay street
Interesting article about life in a wheelchair
05467 days
by Emma
in Living in Malta
This is something I’ve been thinking about – how does people in wheelchair get around on this island? I’ve seen the parking spaces for people with disabled badge, but it must be a nightmare to shop. My little every-day-shop around corner has a narrow door where I don’t think a wheelchair could get in unless they open both doors (as they actually do in the summer). Just inside the door they have ice-cream, milk, water and vegetables. If you want to pay for your items or buy anything else you have to take 4 or 5 steps down to the rest of the shop.
This is something I’ve seen in a lot of places here in Malta and I hope they’ll do something about it.
Facing life in a wheelchair
On any given day, I can hop into my car, drive to work, find a parking space, alight and rush up the stairs to the street and then onto the office.
I had never noticed the scheme of events in detail; it’s usually just one rushed blur, which I loosely called a “commute”, until I tried to spend a workday in the life of a wheelchair-bound person – specifically, wheelchair-bound me.
Shining stars
05472 days
by Emma
in Living in Malta
Stars are shining in our windows now
- Advent wreath without decorations
We now have red-and-gold coloured star in the livingroom and a golden star in the study. Unfortunately the light from the energy bulbs are very white and cold, but maybe I’ll get used to it…
I bought this advent wreath today, but I didn’t find any better candles or decorations. I’ll buy that tomorrow on Bay street.
Shopping all day long
05472 days
by Emma
in Living in Malta
…well, in the afternoon at least.
We got up late this morning. I think we were all tired, even Gizmo. After breakfast Kalle played guitar hero, while I lay on the couch half asleep, listening, with Gizmo sleeping in my arms. Mmm, it was nice!
We didn't buy anything in the first shop.
Here they had a lot of stuff and we bought 2 Moravian stars
I think the maltese people like Christmas lights a lot. The more they blink the better it is.
Flashing stars... not my type of Moravian star
Sweet memories!
In one of the stores I found porcelain figures just like the figures that me and my sister got when we were children. I still have mine, but it is broken and glued together again.
Mixed peel
We also went to Pavi’s for grocery shopping, and I bought ingredients for ginger bread and mulled wine (glögg). But we didn’t find all the spices for glögg. I think we spent 40 minutes trying to find bitter orange peels (pomerans-skal). The only peels they had was a box of diced and coloured mixed peels. I bought it of pure frustration, but I think I will use the peel from fresh oranges instead.