Maltese Roads - Olga
I had a wonderful experience to travel with a scooter across all the island. It was a really exceptional trip. I think that in these two days I discovered more then in my tree weeks stay here. But now I’d like to speak about Maltese roads and drivers that seemed to me both very particular. Roads… well, travelling on the scooter, you feel it’s imperfection stronger. I hope you understand what I mean… even small holes, stones and broken asphalt make you dream about comfortable limousine with air condition and soft seats. But thanks to our adventures I forgot about these small discomforts. We had some troubles on the road but Maltese drivers were very kind with us and always helped us. When we got lost I only asked information to the near car’s driver about the right direction and the man proposed to accompany us where we had to go. The same situation happened several times during the day. Don’t think that we weren’t able to understand alone. The problem was the road signs. It was so difficult to find the right indicators or the towns’ name that we were looking for. But there were other things that I really liked on Maltese roads. For example, the inscription with huge white letters on the asphalt: SLOW. I have never seen something similar in other countries. Or, the long cycle tracks that connect two big cities. Only one observation: in two days I haven’t seen any cyclist on them.