Gozo; Sunday, 14 October, 2018

Overnight the weather had taken a bit of a turn for the worse and Thunder storms, accompanied by quite hefty showers, were the order of the day through breakfast and into the mid-morning.

Eventually the skies started to clear and so we walked the short distance from the hotel up the hill to the bus stop to pick up a bus back down into the harbour. From there we at the front of the queue to join the bus out to Marselform, which was lucky as by the time the bus left it was full and standing.

The bus takes a very pretty route up the Eastern side of Gozo, heading up through Mgarr and further up into Nadur before plunging back down to sea level at Ramla Bay and then winding back up the hill to Xaghra and past the historic temples there before finally plunging back down to the coast at Marselform. Along the way the scenery is stunning, even in the grey leaden clouds that were covering the sky.

In Marselform we had a short wander round the harbour before heading to a restaurant for a light lunch. By the time lunch was finished the weather was clearly brewing itself back up again, and rather than risk it we headed back to the bus stop in time to get the bus back to Mgarr, getting off at the stop just above the hotel to walk back down to it.

We had an afternoon drink on the terrace watching the wind building up, and sheltered, the start of another heavy rain storm.

The original plan was to head out for dinner about 6pm, but by 4 it was clear the weather was getting worse and didn’t show any signs of improving, so instead we booked a table in the hotel restaurant for dinner.

By the time we headed down for dinner just before 7 the wind was howling round the building with hotel staff having to direct guests through a side door to prevent the hotels glass doors from shattering if they slammed shut.

Dinner was accompanied by the kind of storm that’s very interesting to watch if you’re warm and dry inside, but must have been horrible for anyone out it in.

After dinner we had a late drink on mum’s balcony watching a spectacular electric storm rage across Malta and the channel – it was the kind of light show that people would pay money to watch as nature was giving it to us for free.