Driving in Malta

I'm not renting a car, but some others who are staying longer are. We decided to go explore yesterday. It was pretty crazy! Almost immediately we went down a road wide enough for one car that was a dead end and we had to get out of there. We spent lots of time using the roundabouts to do u-turns. People park facing the same direction on both sides of the roads even though it is a two-way road, which gets pretty confusing. Roads aren't named/marked. We tried to find the Hypogeum whatever the heck that is (turned into a big joke), but the sign pointed one way, then we u-turned to see a sign pointing back where we'd just been, which didn't make sense. We found some old-looking churchy building and took a bunch of photos, it might have been something important, but it might have been absolutely nothing. Wandered around an old graveyard. Got into the centre of Valletta and ditched the car to walk aimlessly for a few hours, was cool to see old architecture and super-thick (30 ft?) fortified walls from war times and bombed out buildings. Apparently Malta has lots of history especially involving wars. After returning to the car, had no idea how to get out, ended up following a garbage truck for a long time! (another big joke) Then all over the place again trying to find the way back to the hotel. Meanwhile guys putting on stupid italian accents to make fun of both europeans and americans. (no the people here are not italians, but it kindof feels that way). It was pretty good. Oh, and the whole time, the car was a piece of crap, really jerky even in mid-RPMs and the centre console kept popping open!

Overall I felt some 'culture shock' coming to Malta though...