We have just returned from our second holiday in Malta and we managed to get and have a look around the temples the day before they closed for the work on the 'tent', etc.
My main reason for wanting to visit the site was because as a youngster of 10 I used to play in the temples. That was in 1954!!! My father was stationed at Luqa and we lived just a 200 yards or so away in Paula. The to visit. Hypogeum was even closer and I used to play in there too!! Now you need to book months in advance.
I have some photos, which according to Heritage Malta, are official photos from the 50s and I would like to be able to post them for you, but I have no idea as to how?? Single syllable words for how to please.. We visited Malta Heritage and I gave them a copy, on CD, of all of the photos, Tarxien and the Hypogeum, and they very kindly gave us a couple of complementary tickets for Hagar Qim, an incredible place! Tarxien is to have the same kind of 'tent' to protect it.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road