{"id":844,"date":"2013-07-19T06:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T05:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=844"},"modified":"2013-07-19T06:25:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T05:25:29","slug":"playmates-in-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Playmates in Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nice<\/a>
Nice calm start to the day- a leaking bilge can turn your day upside down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Travelling is wonderful. Even the problems you encounter are part of the journey. \u00a0In Malta, you meet some some great Boating Technicians. The Beneteau dealers here provide excellent service. \u00a0If you have Dock and Go<\/em> issues, ZF in Malta are the only dealers we have found to diagnose the problem and quickly get parts in to repair and get us up and running. \u00a0We can highly recommend Malta if you need boat repairs and supplies. They are qualified, helpful and personable; they speak English, which is a wonderful aid to communication for we language poor only-English speaking Aussies.<\/p>\n

When your friends visit, you can put them to work, Frosty and Louise arrived on Tuesday after 38 hours of travelling. \u00a0Let us pamper you: a shower, a bit of fruit and an icy cold mineral water. Next we had out them walking on the boardwalk to wake them up and absorb the sunshine. Lunch overlooking Valetta Harbour and then back to the boat to get their feet up and adjust to the time difference.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, there was no more molly coddling. A leak sprung up and let 300 litres of fresh water into the bilge. \u00a0Frosty and James had to get to work, drain the bilge and then determine where the leak was. \u00a0It was like a methodical engineering process, otherwise known in Aussie as “productive men’s shed session”. Amazingly, no advice was given, calm reigned and the leak was found (in the foot pump), fixed and hurrahs went up all round. \u00a0We keep checking to see that there was just one leak, but all systems go. Thanks Frosty, welcome to your holiday.<\/p>\n

Thursday afternoon, we were free to go to Mdina and did some sightseeing.<\/p>\n

\"Frosty<\/a>
Frosty & Louise \u00a0at Mdina Gates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Upper<\/a>
Time to relax after fixing the leak, in Upper Barraka Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Now<\/a>
Now that the Feast in Valletta is over, down come the Saints<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We then heard our friends from C’est La Vie were back and when we returned they were parked right next us. \u00a0We got together and compared notes about where we had each been between our last visit. \u00a0They loved Ragusa, so it’s now on our bucket list for the next trip.<\/p>\n

\"Catching<\/a>
Catching up with friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ed Earl, you were on our mind and there were a few times during the day we celebrated for you. Glad you had a wonderful birthday.<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a>
Happy Birthday Eddie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travelling is wonderful. Even the problems you encounter are part of the journey. \u00a0In Malta, you meet some some great Boating Technicians. The Beneteau dealers here provide excellent service. \u00a0If you have Dock and Go issues, ZF in Malta are the only dealers we have found to diagnose the problem and quickly get parts in … Continue reading Playmates in Malta<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-boat-maintenance","category-friendship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-dC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}