01/10/10 - How's this for logic, or is it disinformation?

This sign in Sannat, Gozo, clearly indicates the way to the cliffs of Ta' Cenc and Mramma Temple.

However, drive some 10 metres and you're met by the sign in the photograph below.

Question: may one trespass or not? Someone fix this nonsense!

(The Mramma Temple site has never been properly excavated, but at the end of the 19th Century, archaeologist Albert Mayer tried to estimate the dimensions of the building from the modern field walls and produced a plan.

Only the lowest course of the building is preserved. The only tall megalith visible today has been incorporated in a bird hunter's hide - and one the signs forbids shooting or trapping!)

01/10/10 - Cannon for sale on the heights of Nadur.

And look what it's got going for itself - a magnificent view of Ghajnsielem, Gozo, and Comino.

Only serious offers please!

24/06/10 - For €1.90 you can buy a tea towel with a new version of Maltese history.

According to this, presumably Chinese import, "in 1539 the knight Templars of Malta paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a Golden Falcon encrusted from beak to claw with the rarest jewels - but pirates seized the galley carrying the priceless token and the fate of the Maltese Falcon remains a mystery to this day".

For starters the Order of Templars was disbanded in 1312 and it was the Order of St John that was given Malta in 1530 by Charles V. The rent was a live falcon paid annually on All Souls Day, 1 November.

The reason this myth lives on is because it is the erroneous explanatory note at the start of the 1941 Holywood movie, The Maltese Falcon.

Sadly, when Hollyword rewrites history for its own arcane purposes or out of ignorance, people start believing it and consider it correct.

02/06/10 - Would it not be more appropriate if it were in German?

Fix this sign at a clinic in Qawra.

08/04/10 - Just to confuse tourists and locals alike! Or is this a new way to spell Mdina?

Fix this signpost on Durumblatt Road.

01/04/10 - Fixed! The concierge has been fired!

Read the item below first.

It's taken a while, but the Corinthia Palace's concierge is no longer moonlighting in Rome.

08/04/09 - Uncanny how one can strike a pose and keep it indefinitely. Because that’s exactly what the concierge pictured here has managed to do for years - seven, at least.

In the top photograph, taken in late 2001 or early 2002, the smiling concierge is standing at the reception desk of the Corinthia Palace Hotel in Balzan; he is also wearing a Corinthia Hotels lapel badge. In his right hand he’s holding a room key attached to a brass key ring.

In 2009 the same smiling chap – note that he hasn’t changed tie, probably shirt or jacket – is still wearing his Corinthia Hotels label badge and holding the same key.

However, what has changed is the background. No longer is our concierge at the Corinthia Palace Hotel, but at the two star Capitol Hotel in Rome – which is not a CHI property.

Question. How did the Capitol Hotel obtain the top photograph and doctor it?

Answer. From the Malta Tourism Authority who, several years ago, dished out a CD containing images of the islands and its tourist industry for promotional and marketing purposes of Malta.