Chapter 453: Silent Movie
Malta is a small island with an area of just over 400 square kilometres and a small population of just over 400,000 people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The island is underdeveloped in agriculture and industry, but banking and tourism are well developed.
On average, Malta receives at least 140,000 visitors every month!
That's a lot of numbers, and a small island country like this basically needs to rely on a relatively large market to survive.
Malta is backed by Europe, and Jeju Island is backed by China, both of which are like this.
However, in addition to Malta, there are several other islands in the Mediterranean, such as Corsica, Sicily, Cyprus and Crete.
Of these islands, Corsica is French and Sicily is Italian, both of which are closer to the European continent, and their conditions are better than those of Malta.
However, Malta's location is relatively close to the Mediterranean route, so the port here is very developed, and many passing ships choose to dock here for supplies, and many tourists come on luxury cruise ships.
Lin Quan and Denise came directly by plane, and as soon as the plane landed, the two of them felt that the air temperature here was much higher than that in the UK, and there was some fishy smell of sea water in the air.
The Mediterranean Sea is technically an inland sea, with all three narrow passages, the Suez Canal to the Indian Ocean being dug by hand, the Strait of Gibraltar to the Atlantic Ocean being narrow, and the Dardanelles Strait to the north to the Black Sea not being wide.
So the French put their naval headquarters in the port of Toulon and regarded the Mediterranean Sea as their own inland sea, and it was under this circumstance that the Battle of Tra'ajafar broke out.
Malta's location in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea is so critical that it can be called a battleground, and during World War II, the Germans attacked it and prepared to take it to clear the way for Dönitz's wolves to enter the Mediterranean, but the battle failed.
The two found a five-star hotel, which is one of the six five-star hotels on the island, because it is a country with tourism as its main business, so there are more hotels here, and it does not take much effort to find it.
"It's hot, I knew I would have worn a spring dress!"
As soon as they arrived at the room, the two of them immediately took off their coats, and when they left the UK, the temperature was only 3-9 degrees Celsius, while the current temperature in Malta has exceeded 22 degrees, and the temperature difference between them is really large.
Although the two of them had some preparations, the clothes they were wearing were still a little thick, so on the way from the airport to the hotel, both of them saw sweat on their foreheads.
"You don't need to bring spring clothes, it's better to wear short sleeves directly!"
Lin Quan stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, holding a bottle of ice water in his hand, looking at the beach outside.
Malta's industry is underdeveloped, so the environment is basically not polluted, the beach here looks very clean, there are a lot of people on the beach who are surfing and swimming or basking in the sun, the ships in the distance are in and out of the Malsaxlok ***, it looks very busy, a beautiful giant oil tanker whistled and sailed, slowly left the dock, the flag hanging on the cruise ship seems to be Spanish, to I don't know which company.
"The temperature difference should be relatively large, right? If you wear short sleeves and get cold, I'll take a shower, and you'll come back later! ”
Denise chose a set of clothes and went into the bathroom, but Lin Quan was not in a hurry.
There is time, and there is no hurry, and the floor-to-ceiling windows in the hotel suite make him very interested, as if it is difficult to see such a configuration in other hotels, it seems that this is a turnstile design, worthy of a sea view room.
The sound of gurgling water soon came from the bathroom, Lin Quan sat down on the chair, took the remote control and turned on the TV.
I don't know what channel it is, it doesn't speak English or French, it seems to be Spanish or Italian, but he doesn't understand it anyway.
After looking for a long time, I finally found only a sports channel, although it was also in Spanish, but Lin Quan didn't mind anymore, because he could still understand the football in it.
Sports in Europe are relatively prosperous, whether it is athletics, tennis, football, basketball, etc., they have achieved good results.
The Champions League, which represents the highest level of the world in the world, is currently recognized as the most competitive football competition.
To some extent, compared with the lame national team, the Champions League team is obviously stronger, and almost all of the top teams in the world are in Europe, such as Real Madrid Barcelona and the newly rising Bayern and Dort, these two league super teams, so strong that no national team can match it.
The national team seems to have a lot of stars, but the staffing is obviously not as good as the club, because the selection of the national team is greatly restricted.
For example, the most powerful football team, the most gorgeous and valuable Spanish national football team in history, the metamorphosis of the strong field, the back line is not weak, but the front is weak, there is only one goal in the final of the World Cup in South Africa, or Iniesta scored, and the strikers are often inactive.
And some national teams have the most powerful forwards, such as Portugal and Argentina, Messi and Ronaldo are definitely the most powerful strikers at the moment, but their respective national teams are very weak.
No matter how strong they are, it is useless, football is a team sport, and without the support and protection of teammates, it is a tragedy on the field.
At present, there is a video of a game on TV, and the date seems to be yesterday's game, one of the teams is Barcelona, and the other team Lin Quan does not know.
To be honest, there are only two teams in the Spanish Super League in La Liga that can be watched, and the other teams are completely playing soy sauce to give away points.
In addition to the jerseys of Real Madrid and Barcelona, he is face blind and doesn't know other teams at all.
The 2012-2013 La Liga season was very exciting, Real Madrid and Barcelona were very competitive.
And this kind of game is also Lin Quan likes to watch, it used to be good to watch football and see goals, but now, after watching a lot of Champions League games, he feels very disgusted with those games that only have goals and no cooperation, and those teams he is not familiar with, players he doesn't know, he doesn't like it, so he doesn't have a good impression of games like the World Cup at all.
Anyway, there is nothing to do with the national football team, I am just a bystander, and I don't need to be so enthusiastic at all!
The competition was more intense, and the commentator's emotions were also very excited, and from time to time there was a long sound, which made Lin Quan startled, and finally he could only turn off the sound and watch a silent movie!