{"id":300,"date":"2008-12-28T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-12-28T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T09:07:04","slug":"saturday-20th-friday-27th-december-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 20th &#8211; Friday 26th December &#8211; Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/gozo.JPG\" alt=\"Sandstone on Gozo\" \/>I went to Malta for Christmas and Hanukkah with the family (15 and a half of us). I don&#8217;t really know what I thought Malta would be like, but it wasn&#8217;t really like I expected &#8211; I thought it would have more of a Greek island feel to it. It&#8217;s lovely with beige sandstone buildings and sea wherever you look. We had a drive around Valletta on the first day and it deserves its world heritage site status. Then off to the island of Gozo where we were all staying.<\/p>\n<p>We had hired three farmhouses to accommodate the various family groups and this worked out well. I spent the week sight seeing, walking, exploring temples and towns and we played lots and lots of silly games. On Christmas day we amused (or bemused?) the locals with a treasure hunt around the village of Xaghra. Maltese people are really friendly and when the 4th group of treasure hunters passed there were families waiting to cheer us on.<\/p>\n<p>Great holiday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/malta\/index.html\"> See photos of the holiday.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Malta for Christmas and Hanukkah with the family (15 and a half of us). I don&#8217;t really know what I thought Malta would be like, but it wasn&#8217;t really like I expected &#8211; I thought it would have more of a Greek island feel to it. It&#8217;s lovely with beige sandstone buildings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}