Three hours of lovely hiking with three friends and a dog.

Millie the dog

Under one of the bridges over the valley feeding into the Chadwick lakes.

Such a view from that hilltop. At least that's what I imagine, since we never got there. We leave it for the enxt time...

Tower in the distance

It really looked like rain when we started, in fact it had been raining heavily just before we got there. Luckily it didn’t rain on us. The walk was great, and so was meeting many interesting people, and hanging out with my friends.

Valley of Madonna tal-Isperanza (Madonna of Hope) in Mosta, Malta

Mgarr in the background. We're somewhere along the Victoria Lines bridge

Having friends to share my days with has really helped me cope with being stuck in Malta.

My brother and Poppy!

Here's Poppy!

And here's my Grandfather - 86 and still going strong!

Another hectic week of  running errands and repacking our stuff meant, unfortunately that we had little time to meet our friends! Well, at least Sicily is just 90 minutes by ferry away from Malta, and no more than about 80 Euros per person. Right now we’re quite broke though, so even that is too much. We’ll see how our ventures in Sicily go!

Grandmother's house in the countryside of Sweden.

The view is quite nice!

And here's the little tomte that guards the house. Actually, that's Amanda.

After visiting grandma for a couple of days and spending cosy nights by the fire  in the cottage next door, while temperatures dropped sub-zero outside, we left again for Gothenburg to finalize our packing and take the next step… to Malta.

Pussycat at sunrise, Madstugan, Sweden

An old cat lives in the Red Cottage by a lake close to Torpa, Sweden. The cottage is known to be from the 1600’s, today an old, wooden, typically red on the outside structure. Inside it is small and cosy, with a lovely wood stove and warm upstairs bedrooms like this one. I try to be there as frequently as possible, though with 3.5-4 hrs train from Gothenburg it isn’t easy at all.