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We have 4 proper seasons. Commonly we say that Winter is from 1 Dec till 28/29 Feb Spring is from 1 Mar till 31 May Summer is from 1 Jun till 31 Aug Autumn is from 1 Sep till 30 Nov Unfortunately I've never studied any enviromental subject and have information based on so called common knowledge. I ...

Hi to everyone, It came to my mind today: as far as I know there're only 2 seasons in Malta: winter and summer. But in Maltese language there're all 4 words for all 4 seasons (xitwa, rebbiegha, sajf, harifa), though almost no changes between spring and autumn. Besides they all start from 21st day of...

Yes, this one, thanks!

Tomorrow is 8th of March, which in my native country is known as International Women's Day. On this day all (or almost all) women in Russia receive small presents and bouquets of flowers. Kind of floral symbol of this day is mimosa (the reason why it is so I do not know). In Malta along the roads an...

I never saw native zringijiet close, but on the pictures local species looked really variagated, not like those dark green I saw this time near San Rafflu water edge. I have couple of photoes of these frogs but not of very good qualifity as I really had to zoom... I'll search for them today and send...

Is it in Gozo somewhere in Kercem? I saw something very similar on the way to Sarraflu this New Year long holidays.

In the public garden in the very center of Victoria (I forgot the name of the garden) there's a bougainvillea tree shaped as normal treewuth trunk and crown.

My congratulations! I had only one off-line publication (about Malta, by the way and I remembered how important and high I felt after it.

Do you have any link to the text? I simply do not read newspapers, neither local, nor foreign.

Hi, Just to close this thread I'd like to say that I chose walks -Down Wied Hanzira (some pictures here: http://pics.livejournal.com/zurrija/gallery/0004k9tt); -Down Wied Lunzjata (some pictures here: http://pics.livejournal.com/zurrija/tags/To+post:+Wied+Lunzjata); -Gharb vicinity (it's our usual d...

Please could some of you expain in details how to get to the place with ancient holm oaks. I ask detailed explanations as I am not familiar with Malta north and never been to Wardija/Bidnija.

I forgot to add Sarraflu to the list - I had already been there too and even posted a short note to RuLJ (it's in Russian, but): http://community.livejournal.com/hiking_in_malta/1505.html I was there in early December and do not remember any frogs' songs. I don't know when is the season for their "s...

Thanks a lot for congratulations, Admin!

My husband and I are going to Gozo for a long weekend to celebrate our first year marriage anniversary on last week-end of October. We will stay in Qala. I would like to receive any suggestions about nice routes for hiking in Gozo. It could be long and with rough terrain, we are not bothered about i...

Thanks a lot for the answers and pics. From my own surway I got to know that my father-in-law collected it somewhere behind commercial hamlet Wied iz-Zurrieq many years ago. He put collected plants in bowl of water, boiled them and drank this broth. After taking it 3 times he cured his condition. Th...

From my father-in-law I've heard a story, that plant named xkattapietra helped him to cure nephrolithiasis (stones in kidneys). Now my friend's mother (from Russia) suffers from the same cause and asks maybe this plant can relieve her pains. My problem is that I know only Maltese name for it. When I...

Pozdravlyayu (by the way, it's singular form)

CONGRATULATIONS!!! ПОЗДРАВЛЯЮ!!! (the same in Russian)

There were number of photoes with fortifications or cliffs on background

Last Saturday I managed to fulfill my winter wish: to go down Wied Babu to see widnet il-bahar in blossom. From books I knew that it's flowering time is May-June, so suddenly I found out myself in the middle of month June not visited Wied Babu for national plant of Malta yet. Unfortunately I couldn'...

I went to souvenir shop today in Valletta (I"m going to Moscow soon), saw this book and bought it!
The book covers not only plants, but partly geology and history (military) - loor at the excellent illustrations of the book

Hi Sdravko,

What is afordable price for you?

2 years ago I rented a cheap place, but it was in Zurrieq, just a very-very big room with almost no furniture. If you want I can talk to a landlady as I don't know if they still rent this place.

I know that Malta is overpopulated but it is still very comfortable to live here even in "large" towns if compare to Moscow nowadays conditions (just to enter metro station in a rush-hour you have to spend like half an hour moving 1 step per minute stuffed by the crowd worse than during big rock-fes...

When I was younger I used to share that opinion, that my native country (Russia) is in such a mess simply because the territory is too big and cannot be controlled well. But it seems that size of territory is not the answer :-) When I came to settle in Malta I always lived in Zurrieq and by chance h...

Hi, It seems to me that only you, Maltese people, think that is it very high population density here. Yesterday I was browsing through a tred regarding Malta in September - is it attractive for tourists. A Russian girl raised a very interesting point of view: island is actually 98% deserted and look...