More on Malta Mosta Church

 Hi,

Its a beautiful day today,  it is hot and the sun is shinning,   I am not going to put a spanner in the works,  but towards the end of the week Glastonbury starts,  its going to rain.

  I wanted to share with you another post on Malta,  This is Mosta Church,    this is the famous church where on a Sunday Morning a bomb in World War Two fell on the congregation through the dome.
The Dome is the third largest in Europe,  the other two domes are in London St Paul's and Rome.
The building was started in 1833 and consecrated as a church in 1871.

The people of Malta always felt safer in the churches than anywhere else.    No one was hurt when the bomb fell in fact it went through the roof and never went off.   They call it a miracle on Malta,  as you scroll down the photos there is a picture of the bomb.

The bomb,   it is now a replica of it these days.

View of Mosta from the road leading to the village.







I hope you enjoy these photos,   and having a lovely weekend and enjoying the weather
Until we meet again take care
                           Hugs
                       Margaret

Holiday Finds

Hi,

Sometimes you find something you are not expecting,   the bookmark above was being made by an old lady of 85 sitting in the doorway of her house in Victoria the capital of Gozo.   She explained that she had been making bobbin lace since she was a child, her mother taught her,  she had a stoke a few years ago but she was still managing to make bookmarks,   Her bobbin lace pillow was long and was balanced on her lap.   She used a shiny thread unfortunately the photo does not show the shine of the thread,   I brought one off her,  she was selling them for 3 €,   which is nothing the rate of the euro at the moment is £1.20 to the pound.  It was a real joy watching her with the bobbins,  I must get mine out one day.

Then I found this tatted mat in the hotel gift shop,  no I did not make it,  I found them on sale in the hotel gift shop.  That is the first time I have ever found tatting on sale anywhere.   this little mat cost me wait for 1 €,   yes 1 €,  that's less than a pound,  I cant even make and sell a similar mat on my table for that.  Its a little different in the way that it has a crochet round in the middle,  picking up all the picots from the little middle circle.

I did look for some Maltese tatting while I there,  but it seems its gone out of fashion,  as I found none on Malta.   I did ask on Gozo but the day we went it was a bank holiday and the only place that I was told had some was shut,  just my luck.

   

Another post later in the week on Malta,   until we meet again take care

                         Hugs

                      Margaret

Sun Rise in Malta

Hi,

We arrived home the other day but its the first time I have had time to start a series of posts on Malta,    So I thought I would start with the sun rise we had every morning,   I was up very early to go on a trip and took these pictures as it the sun got his hat on.
They were taken from our bedroom balcony,  we had a lovely room over looking the the Mediterranean Sea.  The hotel was lovely and I will show you more of the hotel in a later post.
Malta has a long history and with its sister island of Gozo and Comino, there's plenty to see a week really it not long enough.
I am going to leave you looking at the sun rise,  until we meet again take care.

                 Hugs
              Margaret