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Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:20 pm**

starcapitan wrote:Excuse me Maltese friends but I 'd like to understand the situation of user Math Murderer : he wazn't in the list of your island users and happeared suddenly.
Is he a German user that change default city and country

Thanks
Hope 2 hit u all

Andrea

Yes Starcaptain, he is on holiday here and it looks like he has been tracking a number of notes.

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:12 pm**

starcapitan wrote:Excuse me Maltese friends but I 'd like to understand the situation of user Math Murderer : he wazn't in the list of your island users and happeared suddenly.
Is he a German user that change default city and country

Yes, I'm originally from Erfurt, Germany

, but I'm right now on a two-week holiday in Malta, so I changed my location.

Ewri wrote:Yes Starcaptain, he is on holiday here and it looks like he has been tracking a number of notes.

That number of notes being 1446 so far...

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:28 pm**

Math Murderer wrote:
starcapitan wrote:Excuse me Maltese friends but I 'd like to understand the situation of user Math Murderer : he wazn't in the list of your island users and happeared suddenly.
Is he a German user that change default city and country
Yes, I'm originally from Erfurt, Germany , but I'm right now on a two-week holiday in Malta, so I changed my location.

Ewri wrote:Yes Starcaptain, he is on holiday here and it looks like he has been tracking a number of notes.
That number of notes being 1446 so far...

well that's pretty much the same as my number of bills since registering.

Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:24 pm**

On March 20 I am flying to Malta for a few days. Are the banks open in Malta on March 21 (Holy Friday)?

Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:41 pm**

apholzer wrote:On March 20 I am flying to Malta for a few days. Are the banks open in Malta on March 21 (Holy Friday)?

for sure they wont
its a Public Holiday

Posted: **Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:43 am**

they will also be closed on Saturday, 22nd March.

Banks in Malta open on Saturdays too, except for Easter Saturday.

I guess you have to make do with the ATM's until Monday 24th.

Posted: **Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:01 am**

Thank you. Easter Monday is not a Public Holiday in Malta?

Posted: **Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:34 am**

apholzer wrote:Thank you. Easter Monday is not a Public Holiday in Malta?

No for this year, it's not. Maybe it will be as from next year.

Posted: **Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:02 pm**

We have another two new users in Malta, I'm happy to say!
It's amazing to see this, while we are here waiting for the general election results..

Posted: **Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:39 pm**

doctorwho wrote:We have another two new users in Malta, I'm happy to say!
It's amazing to see this, while we are here waiting for the general election results..

Yes, I saw they registered yesterday evening. Maltese EBT is getting bigger.

Posted: **Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:35 am**

Fons wrote:Have a nice holiday, MM !!!

And be sure to take some bundles of notes back to Europe's main land to make it easier for us to get Maltese hits!!

Well, I'm back home. I brought exactly 912

bills to mainland Europe. The first 41 of those bills were spent/changed at the airport in Frankfurt, a further 60 were changed on the way home.

Here are my final Maltese stats:

Notes entered: 5038 (+62 by other users)
Hits: 1 (+1 by Crossmaster)
Total value: 70920 €
Avg. value: 14,08 €

Distribution of notes:

2272

1600

593

536

34

3

Locations tracked: 31

Top 10 locations by number of bills:
1. Paola: 849
2. Victoria: 697
3. Valletta: 602
4. Floriana: 499
5. Qormi: 458
6. Mellieha: 441
7. Sliema: 411
8. Bugibba: 311
9. Santa Venera: 277
10. Birkirkara: 227

Good luck to everybody in finding my bills. I don't want to keep a 5038:1 hit ratio for long...

Posted: **Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:03 am**

Math Murderer wrote:Good luck to everybody in finding my bills. I don't want to keep a 5038:1 hit ratio for long...

Thanks

Posted: **Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:06 pm**

Math Murderer wrote:Good luck to everybody in finding my bills. I don't want to keep a 5038:1 hit ratio for long...

Did you exchanged notes in the bank without problems having not a bank account there?

Posted: **Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:10 pm**

debemaks wrote:
Math Murderer wrote:Good luck to everybody in finding my bills. I don't want to keep a 5038:1 hit ratio for long...
Did you exchanged notes in the bank without problems having not a bank account there?

I'd like to hear about it..
I have never tried going to a bank to exchange notes even though I have an account there... I do want to try eventually but I'd love to hear of others' experiences first.

Meanwhile there has been another nice hit in Malta! Congrats to ewri and Sharatan3
http://en.eurobilltracker.eu/notes/?id=42445314
The note travelled from Fleur de lys to St Julians!

Posted: **Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:45 pm**

debemaks wrote:Did you exchanged notes in the bank without problems having not a bank account there?

I went to a total of 36 branches of the Bank of Valletta, HSBC and APS Bank while I was in Malta. In 34 branches the cashier changed money for me without asking any questions.
Two times (HSBC in Sliema, BOV in Birkirkara) I was asked whether I had an account with the bank.
In the Sliema HSBC I said that I was a tourist, and the cashier then changed money anyway.
In the Birkirkara BOV the cashier said that he could change money only for customers, but he offered me the possibility of opening a short-term current account, which I declined.
Overall I was very impressed by the service and the willingness to help from Maltese bank employees. It's quite a contrast to what I experience in Germany. Even at some branches of a bank where I have a current account, an insurance plan and several investments I'm usually asked to provide ID, sign a form or get told to go to another branch when I want to change money.

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