Erasmus Malta 2022

 As I'm catching up on turning my notes into finished posts, I'd like to take down some thoughts; for myself as much as those reading: All of the pictures from most of my early posts are broken, that's rough. I am not sure I remember what was what. I'll have to redo that.  Note: Week 12 will also need pictures added, but the selection is so big that I'll publish it without them for now The formatting in a lot of places is also bad. I only take some of the blame for that. Everything shifts so much between the edit-mode and the published version, and anything related to images is also very wonky to work with. Honestly I don't know when (and to what degree) I'll fix this. Maybe I'll change the theme? I might want to change the font as well, and I'm considering splitting up the long posts.

Another quiet week. Tuesday was a public holiday, so the office was quite empty on Monday. On Thursday, we suffered a power outage. Fairly early on in the day, maybe 8:30 to 9am, everything went dark. Even the generator didn't seem to kick in. I was then given the background info, that this is not uncommon in the summer in Malta. Likely onset by the increase in fans and ACs running, the island cannot sustain its power usage. And while they are already being supplemented with power from Sicily, it seems even that is not enough. So sometimes there are outages that hit various parts of the island. In our case, the building block I'm in was hit, while the rest of MCAST seems to have been spared. A few people from my office ended up taking their work to the Administration building across campus, to finish off meetings there. I am not sure however, how much of the network would have been up, even there. We stayed without lights for a while, then went through a few different variants....

Monday This week started off with more time spent with my aunt. One thing I was really excited about doing, is walking along the Victoria Lines. The Victoria lines are a hiking/walking trail, fairly north in Malta. They follow an old wall that went from one end of the island to the other, east to west. I'd heard a lot of people talk about them at the hostel, and done my research on them. Recommendation was to start in the west, where buses don't run a lot, and make your way towards the east. Once you're about halfway through, you'll often be near well-connected cities, and can easily find your way home even if you don't finish the trek. The early west part of the trail however, may be overgrown and is a bit difficult to find your way around in. Also apparently there may be some 'private property' signs you have to walk past and ignore. I loaded my phone up with pictures, maps and routes, and we set out. I don't have the energy to add dramatic flair to th...