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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talk SEDB.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to Mike Yardley.

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Speaker 3: How are you very good? Thank you, Francesca, and how

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Speaker 3: are you Aside from being sleep deprived?

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Speaker 2: Do you know what? I don't even think it's the

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Speaker 2: lack of sleep. I think it's the emotion. I think

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Speaker 2: it's the tension. I think sometimes I'm sitting there and

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Speaker 2: my body is kind of tensing up and I'm half

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Speaker 2: running the race with them. I think it's that's what's

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Speaker 2: exhausting about watching the Olympics. I mean, Hayden wild bless

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Speaker 2: that man, but he just almost destroyed me in that.

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Speaker 2: I mean I had to leave the room. Everyone was going,

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Speaker 2: well is she doing? Why can't she? I couldn't sit there.

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Speaker 2: I was in and out and was gone to so

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Speaker 2: I was all over the place. So I think it's

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Speaker 2: actually it's not so much the lack of sleep used

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Speaker 2: to lack asleep. I think it's more just just the

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Speaker 2: emotions that goes.

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Speaker 3: Quite right, Yeah, well some people yesterday and they were

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Speaker 3: feeling the same. They just all felt emotionally spent. After what.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I literally looked at him and I said, I

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Speaker 2: feel like I've just run. I feel like I've just

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Speaker 2: done both those trythlons. But you know, sometimes you watch

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Speaker 2: a sport and when they finish, there's smiles and you

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Speaker 2: can see that people actually loved every minute of it.

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Speaker 2: They had fun, they gave it there all. But there's

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Speaker 2: something about the end of the triathlon watching those athletes

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Speaker 2: come over the line, you go, I'm not quite too

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Speaker 2: sure how much fun the thing exactly?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough work.

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Speaker 2: It is incredible. Anyway, what kind of exercise would you

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Speaker 2: do if you were in Malta.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot of history and a lot of scenery,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of movie locations, as you refer to franchise,

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Speaker 3: a bit of walk, a lot of walking. Absolutely. The

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Speaker 3: thing about Malta is that you know, unlike Esily or

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Speaker 3: Spain or Greece or Croatia, it doesn't really flesh on

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Speaker 3: the tourist radar for Kiwi's, which I find quite weird

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Speaker 3: because I think it's seriously underrated. It's a really good

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Speaker 3: value Mediterranean destination and the climate is incredible. I just

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Speaker 3: think it's the sort of place that will smash your

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Speaker 3: expectations and it's very easy to get to, very short

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Speaker 3: direct flights from Dubai Doha, Rome, So yeah, a fabulous

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Speaker 3: destination to check out if you've never been.

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Speaker 2: Where is it located exactly.

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Speaker 3: It is so fast out from the Mediterranean that it's

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Speaker 3: actually parallel with Lebanon to Nisia in Algeria, so it's

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Speaker 3: below Sicily. It's one of the most southerly European nations

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Speaker 3: and obviously because it's position, it's been a strategic prize

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Speaker 3: for conquerors over the centuries. And you can still feel

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Speaker 3: that melting pot influence, you know, sort of North African,

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Speaker 3: Arab and European influences. They're all ever present. And I

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Speaker 3: just recently went to multip for the first time with

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Speaker 3: inside Vacations and they do are really good productory guided

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Speaker 3: to experience. It's sort of like Malta's greatest hits or

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Speaker 3: sort of bundled together. But there's also one of flexible

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Speaker 3: downtime built into the tour so you can do your

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Speaker 3: own thing. And there is something really special about you know,

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Speaker 3: that sort of serender this discovery time. So yeah, I

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Speaker 3: just found it absolutely and frawling.

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Speaker 2: So if you were a first time would you base

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Speaker 2: yourself and steamer.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Salima is this very glossy strip stretching along the

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Speaker 3: seafront across from the letter, which we'll talk about next week.

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Speaker 3: But in Salima, it's just that seafront that is spectacular.

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Speaker 3: It's a buzz with fishing boats and fairies, and they've

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Speaker 3: got this massive two kilometers along promenade swooping along the

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Speaker 3: seafront and it's just a buzz with life. Lots of

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Speaker 3: loved up young things canoodling, their fitness fanatics like Manchesca

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Speaker 3: pounding the pavements. There's elf LESCo cafes and beach clubs

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Speaker 3: and street vendors. It just feels like the colorful carnival

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Speaker 3: of life on that literary promenade, and it's very much

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Speaker 3: the new face of Malta.

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Speaker 2: But I'm sure that, like a lot of places, it's

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Speaker 2: when you get into the back streets you really see

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Speaker 2: or feel the character of a place.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. Yeah, you just have to go a couple

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Speaker 3: of streets back from that seatfront and you feel like

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Speaker 3: you've transported yourself back a hundred years, if not longer.

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Speaker 3: It feels lost in time. It's where the magic happens

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Speaker 3: in Slimer and you've got all of this incredible old architecture,

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Speaker 3: those gorgeous old Maltese balconies. Off the sides of buildings

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Speaker 3: are decovalats, art navaux valats and lots of pint sized grocery,

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Speaker 3: pastry and confectionery shops, which sort of gives the area

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Speaker 3: like an old school village wide. So it's like the

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Speaker 3: old face of Malta intersected with the new face. Great

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Speaker 3: fun to explore.

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Speaker 2: You're selling this well. Now the center of the island

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Speaker 2: is Medina. What is so special out this place?

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Speaker 3: This is remarkable. This town. It's a fortified helltop medieval town,

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Speaker 3: lots and narrow streets, largely car free, and very few inhabitants.

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Speaker 3: In fact, many of the residents are nuns, and you

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Speaker 3: will see them disappearing behind grand old wooden doors as

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Speaker 3: you stole around the lanes. Much of the town was

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Speaker 3: built by the Knights of Saint John, and the architecture,

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Speaker 3: once again, it's just astonishing Norman architecture, Barock architecture. The

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Speaker 3: whole place feels mystical and if it looks familiar, chances

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Speaker 3: are you've been watching Game of Thrones. Because the main

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Speaker 3: city gate into Medina was cast as the entrance to

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Speaker 3: King's landing. Ah mind, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Why doesn't that surprise me? Because I mean, if you

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Speaker 2: look at pictures of it, see, I can absolutely see

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Speaker 2: it would turn up in that TV show. Hey, what's

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Speaker 2: happening with the Queensville and Malta.

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Speaker 3: Yes, if you're a fan of the Crown, you may

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Speaker 3: recall that the Lake Queen considered who your early adult

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Speaker 3: years living in Malta has been some of the happiest

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Speaker 3: of your life, and that was when Philip was stationed

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Speaker 3: there is a naval officers, so they spent a couple

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Speaker 3: of years there before she actually ascended to the throne.

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Speaker 3: But you can see the residence Squadamanja, which is a

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Speaker 3: three hundred year old limestone bullet. It's just about ten

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Speaker 3: to fifteen minutes from Slima and it was recently purchased

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Speaker 3: by the Maltese government so they're owned the process of

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Speaker 3: restoring it and apparently it's going to be turned into

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Speaker 3: a museum in honor of the Queen, so that will

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Speaker 3: be quite an attraction. But just if you're going there

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Speaker 3: for now, you can just rock up to the front entrance.

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Speaker 3: I've got this amazing elegant portico which reaches out onto

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Speaker 3: the footpath, so that is an essential photostop. The other thing,

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Speaker 3: by the way, speaking of the big screen and the

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Speaker 3: TV screen, Gladiator two. Have you heard about Gladiator two Francesca. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so they recently finished shooting that in Malta. Of course

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Speaker 3: the original Gladiator has done you as well. Think it's

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Speaker 3: due out in November, directed by Ridley Scott, so that

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Speaker 3: will be a massive Christmas hit. I reckon, yeah, it

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Speaker 3: will be.

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Speaker 1: Hey.

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Speaker 2: If New Zealand is a heading to Malta, best time of.

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Speaker 3: The year, I would say shoulder season, so September through

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Speaker 3: November is good and then sort of March to May

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Speaker 3: once a hit. June it gets too hot, too crowded.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Mike. Enjoy the rest of your Saturday,

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Speaker 2: have a little afternoon nap and then you'll be able

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Speaker 2: to get through some more Olympics tonight.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: And of course, if you'd like more tips on sampling

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Speaker 2: the sites in Malta, Mike's article is on the website

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Speaker 2: Newstalk ZEDB dot co dot MZ, slash lifestyle, slash travel.

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