Michael
@MikoHassing
Danish expat in Malta
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About me
Danish
Lives in Sliema
Registration: 18 April 2013
FIVE A-SIDE FOOTBALL by WilliamsAR
Friendly group of expats looking for extra players, Monday nights at 20-00 for an hour playing on Astroturf pitch at Luxol Sports ...
Excellent. We have people of ages 25-50, approx. All sorts, basically.... :-) Read More
FIVE A-SIDE FOOTBALL by WilliamsAR
Friendly group of expats looking for extra players, Monday nights at 20-00 for an hour playing on Astroturf pitch at Luxol Sports ...
I think I have managed to add you to the group now, please check on Facebook Read More
FIVE A-SIDE FOOTBALL by WilliamsAR
Friendly group of expats looking for extra players, Monday nights at 20-00 for an hour playing on Astroturf pitch at Luxol Sports ...
Did it work, did you find us on Facebook? Read More
FIVE A-SIDE FOOTBALL by WilliamsAR
Friendly group of expats looking for extra players, Monday nights at 20-00 for an hour playing on Astroturf pitch at Luxol Sports ...
Weird, it is an open group so you should see it. Anyway, I have just sent you a friend request, we'll sort it that way. You are very welcome for Monday Cheers Mike Read More
FIVE A-SIDE FOOTBALL by WilliamsAR
Friendly group of expats looking for extra players, Monday nights at 20-00 for an hour playing on Astroturf pitch at Luxol Sports ...
Try this one: facebook.com/events/438219732947255/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming Read More
FIVE A-SIDE FOOTBALL by WilliamsAR
Friendly group of expats looking for extra players, Monday nights at 20-00 for an hour playing on Astroturf pitch at Luxol Sports ...
Hi Dave Absolutely, you can sign up for it here: facebook.com/events/438219732947255/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular Cheers Mike Read More
FIVE A-SIDE FOOTBALL by WilliamsAR
Friendly group of expats looking for extra players, Monday nights at 20-00 for an hour playing on Astroturf pitch at Luxol Sports ...
Great game last Monday, we'll be playing again next Monday at 8 PM. We can definitely use a few more players, so get in touch if you want to move your body and have some fun! Read More
Medical insurance for a Third Country National in Malta
Thanks for clarifying Ricky - that was pretty much what I expected. What threw me was the 'The work permit terms for non-EU's actually state the the employer has to pay for private health insurance' thing, cause obviously that makes no ... Read More
Medical insurance for a Third Country National in Malta
Hi guys I have a question I hope someone can help with. If you are a Third Contry National, working here for 1 year with an official work permit and paying fully into the social security system, how does it work with medical insurance? Is it: a) ... Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
Hi guys We are playing in Pembroke tonight as usual, if you want to go you can sign up via this Doodle poll (or via our Facebook page): http://doodle.com/8tcgwgkt3hcdnvz2 Please note: From next week on sign up will only be available through ... Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
Great game yesterday, a bit of rain but we made it through! We are playing again on next Monday at 9 PM, so you are all welcome to join us. You can sign up for the next game here: http://doodle.com/kx4xvgwtts4nyr7y or at our Facebook ... Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
I have just checked the Doodle poll and it seems as if we are agreeing on meeting on Saturday at 6 PM - look forward to seeing you all there and saying a proper farewell to Andi...... Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
Great news, have been wondering all day if you were alright. Sure was a nasty knock! Take it easy and we'll see you later, OK? Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
Hi Will One the coming days Andi will be putting up another Doodle poll here, you can just go in there and add your name to the list. If you read the previous posts in this thread you can find the exact details on where we are playing. We will ... Read More
Burial at sea. by GuestPoster566
I want to make enquiries/advance arrangements for my burial at sea, just outside Xlendi bay (Gozo) if possible. Can anyone provide any suggestions of how, if indeed this is permitted, I can start to make the arrangements? Thanks. (Don't know what ...
Sorry to hear that you will leaving us, Redmik ;) Read More
Football and Rugby by willh442
Hi All, Have recently made the move to Malta, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas on if there are any local football/rugby teams ( like Sunday League in the UK) which play in the Sliema area. I am looking to just get back into sport really, ...
Hi there and welcome to Malta A bunch of us expats from the forum are playing footbal every Monday night, you can read all about it here: /forum/viewtopic.php?id=282599 There is always room for 1 more! Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
C'mon guys, come out in full force tonight - if you haven't signed up yet it is not too late, just show up! Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
We're not all on Facebook, Andi Read More
Football, Malta vs. Denmark on 6/9 by MikoHassing
On Friday Sept. 6th at 20:00 Malta will play against Denmark in the European Cup qualification, at the National Stadium. Good tickets are only 聙15 and a few of us from the Expat Forum 5-a side football team are going. Anybody else wanna come ...
Yes, it will just be the 3 of us Read More
Football, Malta vs. Denmark on 6/9 by MikoHassing
On Friday Sept. 6th at 20:00 Malta will play against Denmark in the European Cup qualification, at the National Stadium. Good tickets are only 聙15 and a few of us from the Expat Forum 5-a side football team are going. Anybody else wanna come ...
I guess no one else on the Forum seems interested in this, so let's arrange the details in private. I'll PM you later..... Read More
Football, Malta vs. Denmark on 6/9
On Friday Sept. 6th at 20:00 Malta will play against Denmark in the European Cup qualification, at the National Stadium. Good tickets are only 聙15 and a few of us from the Expat Forum 5-a side football team are going. Anybody else wanna come ... Read More
Taxi from the airport by gabrio
hi guys, Just checking, what's the price I am expected to pay for a taxi ride from the airport to Sliema? We have quite a lot of luggage so probably need a big car. Do I need to bargain with the taxi driver and decide the price before taking off ...
I second that. Had to take a quick trip to the airport, booked eCabs online. Got a quick email confirmation of my booking, got a text 5 minutes before the car came, beautiful shining new black cab with an impeccable and polite driver in uniform ... Read More
10 months in.... by sunmaverick
Hello. Well, 10 months into our new life here, and all I can say, is that it beats Spain by a mile. I have written a book "Retire to Spain", now I am writing, "Retire to Malta", so the differences are important to my publishing work. I have been ...
I concur, I spent some 15 months in Tenerife and I like it better here, too (so far) Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
It was very good, we were 8 people (of the originally 12 that booked) that actually showed up, so we had to play 4 against 4. But very nice pitch and we had a lot of fun with it. We're playing against next week at the same time & place, so make ... Read More
Taxi from the airport by gabrio
hi guys, Just checking, what's the price I am expected to pay for a taxi ride from the airport to Sliema? We have quite a lot of luggage so probably need a big car. Do I need to bargain with the taxi driver and decide the price before taking off ...
...I notice you didn't answer the original question either :)In fact I did not nothing but answer the actual question. The only small part I didn't answer was whether not you can pay with a creditcard, as I don't actually know :) Read More
Taxi from the airport by gabrio
hi guys, Just checking, what's the price I am expected to pay for a taxi ride from the airport to Sliema? We have quite a lot of luggage so probably need a big car. Do I need to bargain with the taxi driver and decide the price before taking off ...
Everybody slams the white cabs and I never use them myself - EXCEPT from the airport, where the price is fixed and there are no problems with dishonest drivers. And the posters question was about the cost of fare from the airport. Read More
FilmOn! by mikea
Hi Folks... seems like an age... Anyhow, a quick question if I may, does anybody on the forum use: - a) The FilmOn free service (I know you do Toon!) b) The FilmOn subscription service? and if so, what are the results like these days? Cheers ...
I use the free one with my iPhone & Apple-TV (and a 25 m/b connection), works like a charm..... Read More
Taxi from the airport by gabrio
hi guys, Just checking, what's the price I am expected to pay for a taxi ride from the airport to Sliema? We have quite a lot of luggage so probably need a big car. Do I need to bargain with the taxi driver and decide the price before taking off ...
Hi Gabrio The white cabs run on a fixed price, 聙20 from the airport to Sliema. You pay inside the terminal and they give you a voucher you give to the driver. Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
Andi, let me be the first to thank you for your hard work on this - and the first one to buy you a beer after the game on Monday! Looking forward to kicking b*** on all of you :D Mike Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
Went to the weekly beach pic-nic in Sliema yesterday, and met 2 more people that are interested in joining the team, 1 Brit and 1 from Portugal. I have told them to post here themselves so Andi can keep track of the developments.... Mike Read More
Electricity tariffs by Seat 0A
Hello all, Not trying to pry open a can of worms here.... On the Enemalta website you can find the tariffs for electricity. For instance, the domestic rate for usage 0-2000 units is about 21 cents. My question: what is a unit? Is that one kWh? So ...
"So one kiloWatthour is 21 cents" In Denmark the cost is typically 29.5 cents per KW - it is ALWAYS worse somewhere else ;) Read More
Looking for a part time job by detola
am a student am about to move to valletta university, but i need a part time job that can help me so much in valletta...............i want to ask maybe i can get a job? and i also want to know the cost of living as a student while i will still be ...
I'll be there, so I guess that's a deal... :cool: Read More
gourmet - "high quality" food shopping by brayster99
Hi All, I have been searching for decent food / supermarket outlets could anyone point me in the right direction. I am generally looking for typically poshy high end products spoken about on the likes of MasterChef and the myriad of other Foody - ...
I have noticed that they just opened a really nice delicatesse shop in Triq Sir Adrian Dingli (Sliema), just across from the post office. Can't remember the exact name of the store, but I think it is "Meat &...(something)". Looks very nice from the ... Read More
Would like to meet english speakers by aixorigin
Hello ! :D I am a 22 years old french person, here in Malta since 6 months ago and all my friends are only french people (shame on me! yeah...) Now, I would like to do some activites with foreigners (sport, beach, have a drink (to start^^), party ...
Show up at the weekly beach pic-nic for expats in Sliema, it is every Wednesday night. You can find the details in the pinned thread at the top.... Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
Hi guys Went to the weekly pic-nic yesterday in the hope of drumming up some more interest, but due to misunderstandings I (with 2 other people) never managed to find them, although there was about 8 of them on the beach. I will try again next ... Read More
Regular Expat blog meet up by Emma3
Hi everybody! Anybody would like to arrange a group meet up this week for a casual beer in Sliema/st.julians area?:)
Hi Ricky That's amazing, I really don't know how we could have missed you. We even asked the few people around if any of them was from the expat group.....we stayed there from about 7:15 to 8.00, and then we gave up on it and left for Biancos. The ... Read More
Regular Expat blog meet up by Emma3
Hi everybody! Anybody would like to arrange a group meet up this week for a casual beer in Sliema/st.julians area?:)
Hmm, maybe we're extremely thick or something but we were 3 newbies on the beach today, at the described spot - and there was no one else! Fortunately we at least found each other and had a nice chat. After waiting around for a while and ... Read More
Regular Expat blog meet up by Emma3
Hi everybody! Anybody would like to arrange a group meet up this week for a casual beer in Sliema/st.julians area?:)
Hope to see you guys at the beach tonight :-) Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
"@Miko: How goes it with the other special forums? Have you found some?" Hi Andi Haven't gotten around to that yet, I had a really busy day yesterday. I'll look into this tonight... I plan on going to the weekly beach pic-nic in Sliema tomorrow, ... Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
Hi guys See you all tonight about 19.30 at the "Times Square". Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
"this saturday (27.07) evening about 1930 at the "Times Square"." Count me in, suits me just fine..... Read More
Regular Expat blog meet up by Emma3
Hi everybody! Anybody would like to arrange a group meet up this week for a casual beer in Sliema/st.julians area?:)
"Check out previous posts for the exact location near Exiles." Facing the sea, is it on the left or the right hand side of Exiles? Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
"Maybe we should get together for a beer to speak about it and to get to know each other? It would be also easier to see who is really interested and how many we are. " I really second this motion..... Read More
Football, 5 a side...just for fun by AndS
Hey All I'm Andi and coming from Austria (Salzburg). One month ago, I moved to Malta (Msida) and stay here for an internship till December. Well, the weekends and the evenings (after work) are very boring - I don't want to spend every evening at the ...
I would definitely go for this, too! Read More
Working in Malta & going back home to see your family by hcpa
I would like to hear stories about EU migrants who have been working in Malta but sometimes need to go back home to see their family. (1) How is it done ? Have been checking easyJet prices and at 250 euros or more it is not cheap. (2) Is it ...
Weather in Malta is definitely nicer than in Nice, especially in Oct-May. And it is very expensive to live in Nice, almost impossible if you are doing a low-wage job. Read More
Regular Expat blog meet up by Emma3
Hi everybody! Anybody would like to arrange a group meet up this week for a casual beer in Sliema/st.julians area?:)
Thanks Ricky, I am sure I'll find it/you guys - see you all later! Read More
Regular Expat blog meet up by Emma3
Hi everybody! Anybody would like to arrange a group meet up this week for a casual beer in Sliema/st.julians area?:)
Hi guys I will try to make my first meeting at the beach tomorrow night, I hope I can find you all there :/ Read More
Anyone else pregnant at present? by puzzledparsley
Hi there, I'm currently 26 weeks pregnant with my first child and would love to meet other mums-to-be in Malta. I live in Qawra.
"Anyone else pregnant at present?" Last I checked, no..... :D Read More
Banif Bank by iamharibo
I would love to hear from anyone who is using or has used Banif bank. I've been using them since January and have had nothing but problems. * They take 4-5 working days to clear a payment that most other banks would do in 3 days. * When I pay for ...
Thanks for the heads up, I'm shopping for a bank here and now I definitely know where NOT to go. Read More
Dane in Malta :D?
Du er velkommen :) I am going to send you a personal message, we better take this in private from here.... Read More
Dane in Malta :D?
Hello I'm Danish and why not, if you want we can meet up for a drink and I can see what I can do to improve your Danish skills..... Read More
Hints and Tips for renting. by GuestPoster566
With thanks to the usual crew: Ricky, Toon, Tearnet, Matt and of course GeorgeinGozo and scubaboy I have reproduced a hints and tips list compiled by them. It could prove useful to anyone wanting to rent property. 1 always rent for a short ...
I concur, very helpful indeed :-) Read More
Banking in Malta by MikoHassing
Hi there I am a Dane who is moving to Malta in a few weeks time. I have a specific question about banking. I understand that it is virtually impossible to open a bank account in Malta without a residency card, which will obviously take months to ...
You should contact your own bank and have them send a letter of recommandation to the Malta bank - if you can get them to do it, they will probably charge you a hefty fee :-/ Read More
Banking in Malta by MikoHassing
Hi there I am a Dane who is moving to Malta in a few weeks time. I have a specific question about banking. I understand that it is virtually impossible to open a bank account in Malta without a residency card, which will obviously take months to ...
Did you yourself ask the bank in Ireland so send them a reference? If the bank in Malta is contacting the bank in Ireland directly, most likely they won't give out any information about you for confidentiality reasons..... Read More
Banking in Malta by MikoHassing
Hi there I am a Dane who is moving to Malta in a few weeks time. I have a specific question about banking. I understand that it is virtually impossible to open a bank account in Malta without a residency card, which will obviously take months to ...
Thanks all for your responses. I will just until I have the residency card and take it from there. There is no immediate hurry.... Read More
Banking in Malta by MikoHassing
Hi there I am a Dane who is moving to Malta in a few weeks time. I have a specific question about banking. I understand that it is virtually impossible to open a bank account in Malta without a residency card, which will obviously take months to ...
Hello Thanks for your replies. The point is that I would prefer to open an account without the hassle/cost of obtaining a referral from foreign banks. So: Does anyone know if the magical residency card will void the entire issue of referral, and ... Read More
Banking in Malta
Hi there I am a Dane who is moving to Malta in a few weeks time. I have a specific question about banking. I understand that it is virtually impossible to open a bank account in Malta without a residency card, which will obviously take months to ... Read More