I had a good night of calm and deep sleep. I let the alarm clock snooze a couple of times before eventually getting out of the warmth of the woollen blankets.
The snow of the precedent day had turned into freezing drops of water. Patches of snow though, still coloured the brown and wet garden.
It was still quite dark; the dawn had just woken up too.
While driving along industrialized areas, fog surrounded me, blurring the shape of factories and warehouses. Everything looked quite and silent, drowsy.
I boarded the plane whistling softly a melody made of random notes. I found a sit by the emergency exit and experienced the pleasure of stretching legs and body in the confined space of a low-cost flight.
“Clear sky with plenty of sunshine and a temperature of 17 Celsius degrees” , the Captain announced. “And it is only 11.30 am..” I thought.
I smiled and followed the instructions given by someone of the cabin crew: I sat back and relaxed.
What a great idea booking a 3-day holiday in Malta, a dot of land (actually 3 dots) in the Mediterranean sea.
When in Malta, if you stretch your neck northwards you may be able to see Sicily.
Westwards instead you may see the coastal line of Tunisia. If you instead prefer looking southwards then make sure you turn your body all the way to the East: you may feel the beauty of Africa rolling from Libya all the way to Turkey, Cyprus and Greece.
When I got off the plane, I immediately felt the warmth of a southern sun. In two hours I went from a European winter to an early spring weather. Let’s start exploring this country then..
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