Today I went with Stef and looked at my two great choices for an apartment. One, in Naxxar, is in a rather posh neighborhood and quite a nice, sleek apartment. The other is in St. Paul's Bay and is rather more bohemian and comes with a dog (and cows next door). It has good views of the sea and is three blocks walk to the sea. It was nice to have two such choices.
I chose St. Paul's Bay. The town is less purely residential than Naxxar and, yes, the sea mattered to me. Last winter, I would look at pictures of apartments in Malta and daydream about one with a view and a quick walk to the sea. I didn't really expect to get the view or walk, but I have. The pictures are from the roof of the apartment, but I can see the sea and hill from the rooms in the apartment. I'm delighted and will also soon learn whether I can become a dog person as well as a cat person [Hercules, the cat, lives in the flat on the first floor of the building.] I move in tomorrow.
