After breakfast, we returned to Rabat to visit the catacombs. Quite interesting to note that the neolithic tradition of buring the dead in underground rock caverns was adopted millennia later by the Phoenicians, the arabs, and the christians. The soft limestone of which Malta is comprised lends itself well to such endeavours. The catacombs are multi-layered caverns which twist and turn in all directions, and it would take much to get lost in there.
Because we're leaving early tomorrow morning, it was nice to have the opportunity to speak one last time with Fr. Reno Grech who stopped by our table in the refectory at the end of our supper tonight. Here's the link to the Malta photo album...I am having some problems linking two albums to the same blog...So, in case I can't figure it out, perhaps this link may work for you.
cheers from malta
http://picasaweb.google.com/dcrowe2/MaltaMay19242009?feat=email#
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