Hi, Y'all!
It's been a looooong time... For those of you with a good memory: I am the one who wanted to post quite regularly :-D
And then life got in the way - once again. Hubby and I are working on a huge project with lots of prep work, thus I had tons to do. On the other hand, I didn't want to spill the beans until everything was safe. And at this stage it felt weird to blog about recipes and sewing projects when I was occupied with something completely different.
Well, I won't be beating around the bush any longer, and some of you we told already in person: we are moving. Yes, once again - you know the drill. But this time is different, because we will move to beautiful Malta! The smallest of the small European dwarf states with its two official languages English and Maltese caught our interest, and at the end of October we are diving headfirst into our next adventure!!!
Few educational facts: Malta has a square footage of appr. 316 km² and is thus smaller than the German city of Bremen. With its 520.000 inhabitants its ranked in between the German cities Nuremberg and Hanover. Manageable, but nevertheless there is hustle and bustle: firstly because of the limited space on an island and secondly because with its 300 days of sun per year it attracts a lot of tourists. But apart from the main island, there are another two islands belonging to Malta: the relatively quiet Gozo and the tiny Comino - with only two constant inhabitants.
Fun fact: Malta was backdrop for numerous hollywood blockbusters - among others Troy (starring Brad Pitt) and Gladiator (starring Russell Crowe) were filmed on Malta, and lastly Game of Thrones, of course. Besides, Popeye was filmed here sometime during the seventies or eighties, and the scenery never was destroyed - moreover, the Maltese use it as an amusement park nowadays. An enterprising bunch are these Maltese people :-)
Well, and what will we do, once we're relocated? The following picture might speak for itself, and no, this is no Apple advert!
In case you are wondering: For sure Heinrich is coming with us, and because of him we are planning a little roadtrip of 2400 km... Because we feared that he wouldn't be allowed to boarding a plane. Due to the risks that brachycephalic dogs as Heinrich bear, some airlines as Lufthansa for example put these breeds on their no-flight-list in 2020. So now he will get dewormed at the end of the month (he is already vaccinated and microchipped), and then he and his European Pet Passport will accompany us in the car to Malta - our furry little globetrotter.
And until then we are organizing our butts off, because in Malta rentals are usually completely furnished, and therefore we have to get rid of all our furniture. Especially selling our dream kitchen is a pain in the neck: two potential buyers already backed out, our landlord won't buy it, and there are no new renters in sight - at least there were neither any realtors nor any potential tenants in our apartment. And there was no feedback to our suggestion to find new tenants ourselves. Honi soit qui mal y pense...
But to avoid any hard feelings please take a look at these gorgeous pictures - and from now on I will keep you posted on a regular basis, I promise!
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