Saturday and still snowing at home we hear. Slow morning buying the local Malta Times and reading it whilst sat in the sun. Then the wind got up and we retreated to look around the Grand Masters Palace. Once the official and private residence of the Grand Order of St John. The palace is now the president's office and seat of the Maltese Parliament, but the State RFooms are open to the public. You go up the 'back stairs' and past the Opposition Whips Office to get in!
The Armoury is also on the tour and has a vast collection of Knights armour and weapons.
In the evening we went and saw some of the Band procession for the start of the Feast of St Paul. It looked to be going on all night. Crowd control (or lack of crowd) was complication as far as the police were concerned by a local football match between deadly rivals - every so often a crown surged out of a bar cheering and then quickly returned to watch again.
I can see why now I've just found the score.
Valletta 2 Floriana 2 - Valletta through on penalties
League leaders Hibs were eliminated from the FA Trophy this evening and Valletta just managed to scrape through on penalities.
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