Malta or Bust....Dec. 20 -21, 2018

Severe weather with tornadoes and 6 hours of intense rain hit the central FL area as we were trying to leave the country.  We had Zed standby flights for Lufthansa and made it to Frankfurt without too many issues.  We didn’t have a great deal of choice of seats, but we did get on.  The flight from Frankfurt to Malta was another problem.  There were 19 seats to be filled by an incoming flight which would have made the flight oversold when those passengers got on. Lufthansa must have different guidelines for holding a flight since they kept the doors open after the departure time and let numerous folks run and get on this flight.  We were waiting along with another couple.  We were the absolute last ones on the flight and were able to get our small suitcase squeezed into an upper compartment.  Whew!  We aren’t sure what we would have been able to do if we had missed our Malta flight.  Papa would probably have indulged his spirits in the nearest pub for the remainder of the day, since he had booked a tour for us the following morning.  Hmmmm.


We did end up in a very nice small hotel in the old area of Valletta with a nice balcony overlooking the water as well as various buildings including numerous domes.