Rainy Weather - Reminder for Travellers, Photographers and Swimmers - handy poem

Angela Lansbury in playing card costume and umbrella. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

 It rains all the day

It rains all the night

It looks like the clouds

Are having a fight

Remember this thing

It rains in the spring 

So let's go to town

When prices are down

Now where can we go

When rain's pouring down?

When waterfalls flow -

Exhibitions in town!

It rains all the day

It rains all the night

It looks like the clouds

Are having a fight

Remember this thing

It rains in the spring.

When you see the sun

Grab camera-phones, run

When clouds scuttle past

You have to act fast

Remember this thing

It rains in the spring.

When you see the sun

Grab swimsuits and run

Don't wait 'til its late

Or you've sealed your fate

When you see a discount

You will if you look

Tomorrow it's gone

So be quick and book

Remember this thing

It rains in the spring

It's autumn elsewhere

In this globe we share

Just open your eyes

It is no surprise

Remember this thing

It rains in the spring.

-ends-

Poem by Angela Lansbury. Jan 2023. Copyright.

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Idea Home Show, back at Olympia, London

Here's a date for your diary, the Ideal Home show back at Olympia, 'returns to its original home' says the ad.
20 March-6 April 2015.
Save £6 quote METRO
Call or book online
0844 858 6763
Adult price £17.50 weekday, £19.50 weekends. Does not apply to concessions. £1.70 transaction fee.

Children under 15 free with a paying adult.
Sponsor Anglian windows. (Oops - nearly called them Anglican, but corrected my typo.)
Home improvements, gardens, furniture, food, fashion, technology, gadgets and gifts.
Discounts and competitions on the website for magazines, shows, rail travel, hotels and restaurants.

More details from
www.idealhomeshow.co.uk
Expect to see it written up in the newspaper.

Angela Lansbury B A Hons, chocoholic author, photographer, speaker.

Malta Things To Do For Families, With or Without Children: Attractions and Bargains

TRANSPORT
LAND
The hop on hop off bus has a top deck for good views. In Spring take an umbrella.
Alternatively, there's a horse drawn carriage to take you around the city of Valletta.
Vintage bus tour.
Gozo Segway tours.
Malta Classic Car Museum, Tourists Street, Qawra SPB 1020. www.classiccarsmalta.com
Cars, motorbikes, model cars, life-size figures and gift shops.
Rolling Geeks, electric powered cars with GPS and commentary. www.rolling-geeks.com
SEA
Take the ferry to Gozo. See Azure.
Side trip to Sicily.
Captain Morgan boat trips.
Blue Grotto Boat Service, 20-25 minute trip passing several caves, 9.30 winter and 9-5.30 summer, weather permitting. www.bluegrottomalta.com.mt Passengers must wear life jacket. Tickets 8 euros.
Malta Maritime Museum.
AIR
On the former site of the RAF station, includes aircraft which played on important part in WWII 1940-43, including Spitfire, de Havilland Tiger Moth, Douglas DC3 and more. Cafeteria and garden, near picnic park and Crafts Village. Last entry 4 pm.
Malta Aviation Museum
www.maltaaviationmuseum.com

ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH
Land, sea and sky provide constant interest.
Bird Park Malta.
Malta Falconry Centre.
National Museum of Natural History.

FISH
Malta National Aquarium
Triq It-Trunciera, Qawr, San Pawl Il-Bahar, SPB 1500
www.aquarium.com.mt

HISTORY & MUSEUMS
Lascaris War rooms, Valletta, where Eisenhower and Montgomery planned operations, underground Med HQ, code room and more.www.lascariswarrooms.com
National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta.
Museum of Archaeology, Victoria, Gozo.
Valletta Living History, Malta.
The Malta Experience.
The Mdina Experience.

LANDMARKS and LANDSCAPE
MALTA
Limestone Heritage Park and Gardens
Multi-lingual film, walk through dioramas and Punic tomb, stone carving, farm animals, 30 foot waterfall garden, coffee and souvenirs shop.
www.limestoneheritage.com
GOZO
Azure Window (arch over sea). Windmill. Calypso Cave. Prehistoric temples.
COMINO
Blue lagoon.

ACTIVITIES
Paintball.
Waterpark.

ATTRACTIONS and Museums
Malta 5D.
Malta experience. 45 minute show. www.themaltaexperience.com
Valletta Living History.

TOYS AND FILMS
Popeye Village
www.popeyemalta.com
Manoel theatre has lots of adults and children's events, some in the local language.

LANGUAGE
Rainy day, stuck on the ferry, or in a queue? If they are interested in language, or map-reading, point out that Triq is track or street, San is Saint and Pawl is Paul. Mt in the internet address is Malta. You could devise a quiz, or ask them to devise a quiz for the family.

HISTORIC
Lascaris War Rooms.

FAMILY DEALS, DISCOUNTS, BARGAINS FOR THE BUDGET CONSCIOUS
Malta Public Transport
www.publictransport.com.mt
Malta Discount Card
www.maltadiscountcard.com
Tel: (+365) 7921 1329
@info@maltadiscountcard.com
Up to 50% off. In Feb 2015 the deal was a 10 day card for only 20 euros, valid for holder and one guest and up to three children under 12 years.
See their website for where to buy and where it is valid.

ADULTS EVENING ENTERTAINMENT
Trabuxu The Wine Bar, Strait Street, Valletta. Tues until Sat. 7.30 until late. www.trabuxu.com.net
Twenty Two. Night club on floor 22 of Malta's highest building the Portomaso Business Tower, St Julian's, Malta.
www.22.com.mt
Open Wed-Sun 9.30 until late.