Sliema; Monday, 29 May, 2017

A late breakfast, or as late as it can be when the hotel stops serving at 9:30, and then after packing my bag it was time to check out and head back to the airport.

Unlike the previous evening buses were running. During the summer the bus company supplements some of the their most popular or important routes with direct services and it was one of these – the TD2 – that we picked up from Slimea Ferries. It’s a limited stop service having only called at three stops prior on its journey in from St Julian’s and then running fast to the airport. Knowing the speed Maltese bus drivers prefer we were down at the stop nearly 20 minutes before the bus was due, and that turned out to be a good idea as it turned up a good 10 minutes before its scheduled time and then, after loading the passengers that were there, set off straight for the airport arriving nearly an hour before its scheduled time.

It meant we had to wait for a little while before check-in opened but were then able to drop our bags and head on through to departures and our journey home.