Sliema Off The Beaten Path

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The duck's village on Manoel Island in sliema is a bizarre place: a fenced garden of improvised stone sculptures and decaying animal figurines as well as – obviously – real living ducks. And those ducks have houses, gardens, a cemetery and even a boat. Each house has a sign on top of it, with the name of the duck which inhabits it. A weird place… but I liked it.

Tallira shops are very popular in whole Malta becauyse everything they sell, sell it for 1 Maltese lira (pound). BTW 1 LM= 2.33- 2.4 euros.

In Tallira shops, for 1 pound you can buy:
- 4 0.5 liters cans of German beer
- large Malta flag
- 2-4 pieces of different food
- 1-2 pieces of different souvenirs...

This is the road that joins St.Julians to Sliema. If you follow this road you will end up in Sliema and the Strand of the Sliema Promenade. This photo was taken coming from the Sliema direction just opposite the Church of Balluta which is a small village that joins Sliema and St Julians. Just opposite the church there is Neptunes sports club and a little sandy bay which is not good for swimming as the sea is contaminated.

Balluta Buildings are one of the few eldest buildings in St.Julians/Sliema. Unfortunitly don't know alot about them however people still live in them today and the architectural style that was used to build them is so amazing. If you go close to them one can realise the great detail the architect used to build them.

If you pass this monument then you are the right way to the Sliema Shopping Centre so follow the promenade either from Gzira or from St Julian's direction and you will find the monument on the side of the sea.

There are a few companies offering Harbour Cruises and I’m sure they are all pretty good. We went with Captain Morgan and it was hard to fault the tour, though I have seen (while walking) that some other companies go a bit further into some of the creeks than Morgan’s did on our cruise. Whether there’s anything to be gained from that I don’t really know.
The cruises all depart from roughly the same part of Sliema harbour front, up towards the Valletta ferry landing, and the front is lined with the kiosks of the companies, and their reps try constantly to get you to go on a cruise. It can be a bit wearing at times, as you can be asked 5 or 6 times every time you walk up The Strand – and we walked it a lot of times in the two weeks we were there!

This place is situated at the tip of Tigne' which is a small place which forms part of Sliema. This beach is called Tini beach and is very popular amongst foreigners. This is the beach of NSTS therefore one has to present his or her card to enter. Here you can play vollyeball in the sand pit and make use of many sport facilities.

This photo was sent to me by my friend so I am not very sure what it is. In my opinion it was once the old 'Break Water' however during the time of the War it was bombed by a torpedo and this is what is left of it. This is situated just between Sliema and Valletta. Today another breakwater of stone was built. This is a curved wall which is built to protect the Grand Harbour from huge waves during bad weather !