I titled this shot ‘Strolling into Antenna City’ for somewhat obvious reasons. I still don’t think I’ve seen such a density of TV antennas since.
Malta’s little more than a rock in the Mediterranean. Certainly back in early 1990 this was pre-satellite TV days. I wonder if now it’s a cluster of dishes.
With the old analogue TV signals, the antennas on the buildings down by the harbor had to be raised in order to escape the shadow of the hills in this part of the country.
The hills are hinted at by the way the Church of Sacro Cuor rises above this scene.
I’d moved a little further along the seawall from where the angler was. Here, three locals (guessing by the poodle) walk along the Sliema waterfront on a relatively chill and overcast afternoon. The four blue and cream coaches are tourist coaches while the green bus on the right is one of the local buses. The store behind the green bus is named ‘St. Michael from Marks & Spencer’. The six-story building on the left bears the ‘Square Deal’ mark. According to google maps this building still holds Square Deal though their logo has been updated in the intervening 23 years.
This would be the last photo I would take on this trip to Malta. In the morning I’d be flying on to Libya so it was time for my last western restaurant meal for the next eight or so weeks.
Whenever we transited back through Malta there was a 24-hour cafe not far from the hotel where we’d literally ‘pork out’ on bacon, sausages, ham steaks, baked beans and fried eggs – a heart attack on a plate if ever there was one, not that I cared at the time.
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