Maltese people

The host accompanies the guest on their onward journey, making sure they have everything they need as they depart.

I want you to think with me about the Maltese.

Not Maltesers, if you're getting hungry, but the Maltese for a moment in Acts 28:1-10, but really verse 11 as well.

Uh, it's a remarkable passage.

Normally, we think about the snake a lot.

Lots of casualties.

Lots of casualties on both sides, and the British side also had lots of Maltese people on their side who also got killed as well.

So, but the Brits were so angry that they had lost so many people that they decided they would plunder the Afghanistans by stealing lots of gold.

The Afghanis.

Tibley gore is his whatever.

In any event, Peter, Tewksbury's father, has a crisis of conscience, decides that he can't in good conscience take this money.

But instead of giving it back, he decides to scuttle the ship and then blame it on all the Maltese.

How is this making things better?

Because The Naked Ape had been such a phenomenal success and brought him untold riches, Desmond and his wife had moved from the UK to the tax haven of Malta.

I was amazed by all the subtle differences in body language between the Maltese and the British.

The fact that we shake our heads when we say no, and they toss their heads back, which they take from the Greek.

The Greek no, the head toss.

And indeed, not only banned, but actually physically burned by the church.

When books arrived in Malta, the church would look at them, and if they didn't like them, they would burn them.

And I was on this banned list, and I said to a Maltese author I'd got friendly with, I said, "Do you think I should try and do something about this? Should I complain?" He said, "Don't." He said, "It'll ruin your sales on the island."

[laughs]

As a child, Janet loved to watch her mother in the kitchen making casseroles and old-fashioned puddings.

She also loved visiting food markets with her Maltese grandmother.

When Janet was a teenager, the family took a holiday in Bali, Indonesia, and Janet had her first exposure to Bali's vibrant food and culture.

After she finished school and gained a Bachelor of Education in Arts and Crafts from Bowswood State College in Melbourne, Janet took another holiday in Bali, and when she met her future husband, Ketut, on the second day of that holiday, her life changed forever.

We're bound to have a smash now, muttered Herrick, unless that lover of a pilot's kind enough to fall overboard.

The poor Maltese speedily justified this bitter verdict.

Two of the vessels were passed safely, but as they neared the third, the pilot got flurried and gave a wrong order.

The next moment, the Arizona came smash into the counter of the ironclad, sweeping away the miniature flower garden which her captain had arranged along the stern galley.

an american steamer does not touch a faletta every day and the arizona soon had plenty of visitors most of the crew being busy frank was told off to act as showman and for the first two days he had more than enough to do From sunrise to sunset, the decks were crowded with sightseers of all ages and conditions.

Stiff, wooden-faced soldiers from the garrison, languid ladies who looked much more at each other's bonnets than at the ship, and seemed to be always sitting down and never getting up.

jaunty military officers with uniforms as trim as their mustaches huge red-whiskered sailors from the english men-of-war who kept patting frank on the head like a child to his great indignation and native maltese who seemed immensely astonished at all they saw and chattered over everything like so many parrots some of these last mistook the white painted iron of the engine for wood and were seen trying to chip off pieces of it with their knives as mementoes of the visit but when once he was off duty austin began to enjoy himself in earnest there really seemed to be no end to the curious sights of the place the steep break-neck streets almost like paved precipices the tall thick-walled narrow-windowed houses small fortresses in themselves the shaven monks who looked terribly hot in their heavy black robes, the slim, dark-eyed Greeks with their jaunty red caps, and the gaunt, swarthy Moors scowling from under their huge white turbans, the queer little Maltese boats with high prows and sterns, quaintly carved and painted, the files of donkeys plodding past under big baskets of fruit, with their barefooted drivers yelling behind them, the huge forts built by the Knights of St. John, the former owners of Malta, nine thousand of whom had held them for eight months against thirty-five thousand turks during the great siege of fifteen sixty five and the stately english ironclads which seemed to be always exercising their men or standing out to sea to bang at a floating mark with their big guns for hours together but there were other and even more striking sights than these there was the old city of cittavecchia with its ruined aqueduct there was the church of st paul the first built on the island the ceiling of which is covered with magnificent frescoes while the floor is one mass of precious stones worked into portraits of the great men who lay beneath it.

There was a cave, said to have sheltered St. Paul after his shipwreck, and containing a fine statue of him.

Yeah.

Funniest thing is he is Maltese.

Now, the Maltese are basically, [sighs] ethnically, well, how would you say? Their, their, their breed is basically Middle Eastern.

Yes.

Sort of thing.