petards

Was enjoying a bucks fizz on the roof terrace watching the boats coming back to Ta Xbiex marina and listening to a soprano singing Ave Maria at the Sacro Cour church and thinking this is heaven. Then the blitz spoilt it all. For those not familiar with what goes on at feast days in Malta, I shall explain.

We have these firework fanatics, who are in competition with other fanatics from other parishes, who hoist the noisiest petards imaginable. Each feast has to show it is louder than the last. It is like living in a war zone.

In fact when Madonna was in Malta filming a few years ago, she remarked in a radio interview in the UK that she was shocked thinking there was an air raid.