Malta Part 2

Bondi Tram
Peter Colquhoun and Sandra Colquhoun
Sun 27 Dec 2009 06:31
 
The entrance to Dockyard Creek, Grand Harbour, with Fort St. Angelo on the left.
 
 
Buses are cheap, plentiful and well partronised.  Each bus is privately owned and contracted to
the public transport authority.  They are old, decorated and named individually (though all the same
colour) and are a tourist attraction in their own right, with most of them dating back to the 50s and
60s.
 
 
View of Grand Harbour.  At top left is the dry dock built built by the Royal Navy and now
run by Malta Dock Yards at great cost to the taxpayer...consequently the whole operation has
just been sold to private buyers.
 
 
Parliament House
 
 
Church in the original capital of Mdina, which is in the centre of the island.
 
 
Crossing the bridge over the moat to enter Mdina
 
 
The only wheeled transport allowed, except for some delivery and service vehicles
 
 
Main street mansions in Mdina
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The cathedral in Mdina
 
 
The bishop's palace, Mdina
 
 
 
 
Valetta decorated for a festival
 
 
An historical reenactment at the old fort
 
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