1. There is no lunch better than a
couple of slices of Maltese bread with good olive oil, tomatoes, salt
and pepper, and an ice-cold Cisk to wash it down.
2. If you leave Malta to live abroad,
you will eventually end up with a group of friends which unfailingly
includes a number of Maltese.
3. Similarly, if you have left Malta and
look forward to a holiday back home, you will return to find many of
your friends no longer live there either.
4. A true friend brings you a supply of
Twistees, galletti and gbejniet when they visit. Bonus friend points if
they also manage to squeeze a couple of bottles of Kinnie into their
suitcase.
5. You will never admit it, but you
secretly look forward to the Eurovision and even feel an inexplicable
surge of pride when the Maltese singer takes to the stage.
6. There is no better way to end a long night out than stopping for a breakfast of pastizzi in Rabat.
7. There is no such thing as the six degrees of separation in Malta. Even in extreme...read on.