VICE- Speedos

Now here's a fact about Italy- it is SPEEDO CERTRAL. My brother and a few others (Norbert) will appriciate that comment.

There are so many Speedos here that you stop making fun of them, so Dad, Mum, Sean n Norbert I sugest you come here to overcome your phobia of "The Speedo!".

You have my room mate to thank for these photos. I share a cabin with two girls, Hannah from Scotland and Ania from South Africa. Ania has a fetish for taking photos of inadequetly attired people for a magazine called "Vice"- hence these shots. This a pic of her sneaking a shot at the guy in pink pants.

Siracusa, Sicily.

Siracusa! A little island off the eastern coast of Sicily is where I am right now.

Most evenings, after my mandatory 45 minute run, I spend chilling with a coffee in the sea front ice cream parlours- this island as got to have the best ice cream I have tasted! Most of these quiet evenings would somehow end up with me in the bars, enjoying the nightlife.

Right now I’m enjoying a day off, sunbathing on Siracusa’s rocky coastline. The water is so clear you don’t need a mask to enjoy the underwater view.

Yesterday we hired as minibus and 8 of our crew ventured out to Sicily’s greatest natural attraction, which is also its highest mountain, “Mount Etna”. Mount Etna is an active volcano, its summit reaches 3350meters and it has so many craters that when it explodes nobody knows where the lava will come gushing from. Upon arrival we toured around one of the lower craters at 1986meters (my DoB) and enjoyed a random game of throw n catch directly in its centre with the tennis ball I conveniently brought along. Finally we decided to hike “Etna”. This is a picture of us outside the ticket office after finding out that not only is it 50euros each to take the 4wheel drive bus just 400meters higher than we actually were but then u would have to pay to spend the night in the tour company’s hotel and join the group tour of Etna at 9am- SCANDALOUS!!!!!! Our crew is actually freakishly organised-to the point of “OCD”- so the fact that no one researched the volcano and its entrance fee is actually quite surprising.

The Malta Experience

Well it has been a little while since I last wrote my blog. Last you guys heard I was in Egypt and about to make my way across the Southern Mediterranean Sea to Malta.
I am glad to say that I made it safely and have been enjoying it here in Malta for the last 2 weeks.
In the 2 weeks here I have had a total of 3 days off work. I have been to Malta’s capital “Valletta” and it as got to be one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen. Valletta is a fort on a peninsula, the whole city is this peninsula, its coastline is high walls with built in cannon holes and little secret passage ways all through it- the cannons actually have the English Crown Emblem on them. Its clear to see that Malta was under British rule from the world war until around 1975, it has got the same post boxes, phone boxes and the lamps outside the police station as in England, plus they drive on the left hand side of the road. Other than this I’ve not really seen that much of Malta, been working too hard and long hours trying to get the boat “blinging”. The one bit of advice I do have for anybody planning on going to Malta is, avoid the taxis, they are way too expensive and the public transport is great and cheap.