A new Dawn around Europe Then the UK.

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I love Malta and have been there three times, twice on cruises and once for three nights. I would gladly visit again for much longer. Gozo was just gorgeous! I could say for the salt, but that filigree silver jewelry definitely is front and centre! The Hagar Qim historical site was another excellent experience out of town.
 
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There is a link between our last port in Sicily and Malta. The artist Caravaggio. He was born in milan but had to leave after several brawls and wounding a policeman. He moved to Rome where his career took off. However he continued brawling and finally in a duel killed a man. He was sentenced to death by beheading but he escaped. Anyone who recognised him however was allowed to carry out the sentence.
He then fled to Naples and on to Malta where he was welcomed and even made a knight of the order of St. John. However he continued brawling,was thrown in jail but escaped to Syracuse,Sicily. he was Thrown out of the Knights as a"foul and rotten member".

In the Cathedral is his painting of the beheading of John the Baptist.
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Another painting of note by Caravaggio -St.Jerome writing but it is famous for a different reason.
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It was tracked down and recovered after a sting operation by a monk who was director of Museums in Malta. Badly damaged though.
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The front of the cathedral with it's different clock. So I can tell you we exited the cathedral just before 11am on wednesday 25th September.
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I wonder how well this organisation is doing.
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And a classic Maltese name. We were close to a family of Azzopardis when I was young so know that the first Maltese free immigrant to Australia was an Azzopardi.
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This street leads us to our next stop.
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So at the end of the street you go through a passageway.
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And come out at the main square where Queen Victoria is looking at a dinosaur.
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The dinosaur is there because this year's Jurassic World movie was in Malta for some of the scenes.
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Now back to the ship.Once again we were dropped some distance from our ship and went through a duty free shop to get to the wharf.
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And our suite is the third deck down from the top and second cabin along from the white band towards the left.
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Our neighbour.
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So to dinner. First the wines.
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Mrsdrron started off with the carpaccio and i had an octopus dish. Not sure what it was with.
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For mains Mrsdrron had a mushroom pasta dish and I had veal liver which was yummy.
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Mrsdrron had dessert.
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Whilst I had the cheeses plate. I did remark to our waiter how I loved Gorganzola so was presented with a plate of gorganzola and a second plate with the other cheeses.
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