The most enduring memory I will have of this apartment is the view. The photos don’t do it justice. From the bedroom and the balcony the view was extraordinarily beautiful. 2 minutes down the road to the most scenic bus stop imaginable - I used to leave 10 minutes early for the bus so I could breathe in the scenery while I waited. I was there for the whole of January so the changes wrought by the wind, sun and moon meant an ever changing vista.
The apartment is big, clean and had everything I needed and more - I never went near the iron or the hairdryer for example but I could have if I’d have wanted. As I was on a budget and have odd dietary choices/needs I ate at ‘home’ most of the time and found everything I needed to cook and create. There were even some plasters for the occasional chopping accident.
Second to the view the other exceptional thing about the place was Melissa and her partner. They helped me in every way they could could, what lovely people. Melissa even came over to show me how to light the oven when I couldn’t figure it out. When she couldn’t either (so I wasn’t the only one) her husband came by and showed me how to do it.
I could list so many ways in which Melissa and Charlton helped me to settle in, to find my way around both the apartment and the area and to overcome some challenges of my own making along the way with such generosity and kindness.
Xlendi is lovely. It has good restaurants,bars and cafes even in winter and is only 10 mins by bus from Victoria which is both beautiful and useful with a cinema, great supermarkets and enough sites of interest to wander through for weeks.
I thoroughly recommend this apartment and sincerely hope to return next winter.