All excellent advice -- Lozzo Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite they churn out)
There's enough of them over there. Over 75% of my family are on the island. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite they churn out)
How odd. I might be going to Malta then but for the very saddo reason of seeing and using the amazing ancient bus fleet before it is swept off the road in July when Arriva take over the entire bus network. Decades of unique operation and vehicles will disappear overnight. I'm sure I'll enjoy the scenery and weather too. The other insights in this thread have been helpful too. By fighter jet if she wants to do a day trip ;-) I've not heard that the hotels are noticeably worse than those here in the UK.
Most of the proper old converted wartime Bedford and Dodge pick-up fleet has been decommissioned now, but a few are still in service - they've moved into the 1970s with some old Plaxton bodied Bedford coaches and suchlike. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite they churn out)
I'd say it was worth going to see, make a trip to the main bus station where's there's loads. I wonder if the new modern fleet will still let the drivers have their little shrines to the virgin in the front. I did wonder if they were in lieu of maintenance.
Heh. There's a church in the Naples area where locals take their vehicles to be blessed. Their *belief* on the roads has to be experienced.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&q=bus+terminus+valletta&fb=1&gl=uk &hq=bus+terminus&hnear=Valletta,+Malta&cid=0,0,14397614771087117511&ll=3 5.895686,14.508374&spn=0.00128,0.002411&t=h&z=19 -- Lozzo Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite they churn out)
Arriva? FFS! Those semi-scruffy old yellow buses are part of the fabric, aren't they? I essayed several trips on them and was thoroughly entertained - perhaps the best public transport experience I've ever had. Yes, they're hot and noisy and rattly and smoke a bit, but so does most of the population - and you don't expect the locals to run on time either. I think it'll be a sad loss.
172 Chinese built buses, 50 bendy buses from London and a smattering of hybrid power midibuses take over from what is there now.
Yuk. And bendy buses? That's going to be fun. Just google "malta buses" and you'll see what's there now. It's going to be a sad loss.
Wtf were they thinking of when they decided to do this? Maltese buses are famous the world over, taking them off the road and relacing them with modern bendy buses is like demolishing the Mosta dome or pumping concrete into the catacombes. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite they churn out)
Fucking EU cunts -- Lozzo Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite they churn out)
It's a part of the heritage and it boils my piss that it's an EU ruling that's forced them into it. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite they churn out)
Their day is over, especially now Libya is becoming a depleted uranium dump and you spiks will have no export market for the buses that have gone out of service due to natural causes.
