After yesterday’s post on
wheels I shared with you, today I am sharing with you a photo I took over 46
years ago. This was in our sister island Gozo during the summer of 1974 or 1975
as I came across this alley with a number of sulky carriages lined up against
the wall, and behold this black-and white photo I took with my instamatic
camera. These types of carriages are very popular in Malta and are used with a
horse guiding them. You can see them occasionally even in busy streets, but
they are used mostly for racing around a track. I remember also when in 1990 my
Bishop of Long Island visited Malta, he was so impressed with these sulky
carriages meandering among cars on the Malta roads, which were not as busy
then, as they are now. We call them karettuni
and are a part of the Maltese landscape as windmills, farmhouses and church
domes and steeples are on the skyline, unfortunately overpowered by tower
cranes over the last 10 years.
Saturday 24 April 2021
Karettuni
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