Bori goes to Holland

Once upon a time, back in the summer of 2011, there was an event called SCIM, where children of all nations have gathered to learn from each other, have fun together, and drink massive amounts of alcohol. On one of these joyous days in Slovenia, I was looking for the hometown of each of us on the map that hang on the walls at trainstation of Ljubljana. As it turned out, Malta did not exist, according to the map, and was thus labelled by us to be not an island, but just a huge boat, floating in the Mediterranean Sea with 400,000 people on it who claim it to be a proper island.

Needless to say, the Maltesers were greatly offended, and had invited us to visit them to verify by our own eyes that Malta exists. It was on this fateful summer day in 2011 that we thought the fun should not end with the end of SCIM and thus swore to meet again, on the boat which is allegedly an island, called Malta.

Therefore, the 'Massive Top Secret Boat Party' group was created on Facebook, and after months of waiting, weeks of struggling with schedule adjustments, a Croatian, an Estonian and a Hungarian had finally booked their flights to visit the two Maltesers.

I left Holland (5°C) and I arrived in Malta (19°C) on the 14th of April, dropped my jaw, and I left it dropped during all of the 3 days that I have spent there. It is the most beautiful place I have ever been to: hills, terraced fields like in Toscany, with cute mediterranean houses (with not only numbers, but each of them has its own name!!), crazy traffic (on the left side!!) with Italian temperament, and amazing sea-shore all around, because it's a fucking island! It was too beautiful, breathtakingly, disgustingly beautiful. I WANT TO GO BACK!! But next time when it's properly summer and warm, but I still managed to get a tan during my short spring stay which was an amazing feeling. 

I am literally unable to pick pictures for this blogpost, so I'd like to share my Facebook album for those who are interested. As a foretaste, two modest pictures with me, first on the beach of Gozo, the (even) smaller island of Malta:

And second, Helen, Dino and me in Valletta, with the gorgeous view from the Baracca garden behind our back:

For a panorama pic of this view, click here.

Thank you Beckie and Charm, my Maltese friends for touring us around, and thank you Dino and Helen for making this boat party happen!

Date and location of the next SCIM reunion to be announced... Estonia? Argentina? Hungary?... We'll see! :)