The travel agency and the airline has cleared it, and there is no apparent threat to us. If you want to be a bigot, Malta is mostly muslim, and it's a stepping stone between southern europe and tunisia. But I have no regrets whatsoever.

Regardless, I must soothe my emotional side and post these silly words, for the "what-if" side of my brain would kill me if not. Also, the alcohol has killed what better judgement I used to have.

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If you want to be a bigot, Malta is mostly muslim

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Actually, Malta will remain mostly Muslim whether or not i decide to be a bigot.

I have never seen so much airport security!
For starters, the swedish police was covering the whole Arlanda airport here, all of them with silenced H&K MP5 sub-machineguns.
The return trip from Malta was even worse, them soldiers in Valetta airport looked mean.
Three arab-looking people were taken in for a chat there, and another man was questioned by our police when we returned to Sweden.

But the trip was wonderful, only on the first day were there clouds and they didn't even block the sun. The other days you had to watch out not to get hurt, which I did anyhow.
The currency was the highest I've used ever, one Maltese Lira/Pound was 24 Swedish Krona and 2.4 US dollars when we left.
I only know one who is higher and that's the kuwaiti Dinar, and I don't plan on going there any time soon. :-)

The drinks and food were pretty cheap, in a good way, but the hotel minibar almost sucked me and my roommate dry, as they always do.

The nightlife was like that of many latin countries, lots of dance joints, salsa, mambo. The girls were extrememly yum and liked it when you danced with them. Aiaiai...

I'm not used to salt water, (not THAT salt, anyhow), so there was much showering and disgusting "mishaps" when snorkling.
The "sightseeing" was great, we got four open jeeps to drive around the island with on some sort of treasure hunt.
It was scary at times since they A: drive on the left side, and B: act like goddamn Indycars while doing it, but there were no accidents.
The Silent City of Mdina was awesome, much culture there, Sol, wink wink.
All in all, everybody's really glad we didn't cancel, although we came home at midnight in the sunday (back to the treadmill...). I'm also happy to say that airplane food has improved over the years, I used my vomit bag to store candy and chocolate in instead. Must've looked strange to see someone eating from that thing.

I didn't get any souvernirs, just some clothes from a nice, newly-built five story shopping mall. And I got a big beer stein decorated with the maltesian cross.