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Malta. I'm going at last. I rarely confess to it but I enjoyed the 1983 film Trenchcoat with Margot Kidder. Sort of a spoof on film noir and male detectives, Margot Kidder stars as a mystery writer on vacation in Malta who becomes involved in her own real life mystery. It's a dry comedy, rather silly but it made me want to go to Malta. Given that at the time I was young and poor and had never left the country, I pushed it all to the back of my head until about a year ago. Finally the time has come and in about 10 weeks (Oct. 29 to be specific) I'll be there. It took a wide variety of airports to get the price in my range and I can only say that I'm glad I have free hotel nights or I'd never be there at all. Even with all my hotel points I don't have enough for a full stay and I'll still have to gasp a little bit for the price I did pay. $238 per night but I upgraded to a full breakfast and dinner plan. This is at the Intercontinental and other hotels were double that price. So now I look and realize that it has been 2 hours of my intense hotel mix and match hunt (including the final night free stay in Munich) and it is time for a beer and to watch some E!

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