Apr 15, 2008 - Valletta, Malta

Phil's entry: Valletta, Malta (near Sicily, Italy). Malta is an independent country, once being part of the Italian empire. Malta is a small island that has been fought over by about 5 empires over several centuries. This is an island where the inhabitants of Rhodes, Greece went to when the Arabic empires overran and expelled the Christian Knights Grecian residents. The fortifications of ALL the city, approaches to the harbors and entries to the city are almost identical to the walled construction of Rhodes, except more modern for the times...

May 20, 2005 - Scopello

Today we got our first real lesson of “you absolutely can NOT count on Italian transportation to follow a schedule!” The bus not showing up in Positano was nothing- today we found out that the 10:30 train we had very carefully checked out last night (via the schedule posted at the train station, guaranteed from Dec ’04- Dec ’05) just doesn’t exist. There was one that had left at 9:40, and the next one wasn’t until nearly two-thirty! Simple, we thought, we’ll just catch the next bus instead. HAH! Bus strike today! So we walked the 20 minutes...