Joanna Sultana and Robert Borg

Wedding Date:  18th June 2000

I suppose you can say it was meant to be!

I met Joanne when we where both at school in Sydney, Australia. We were in year 1 together, at a local primary school there, in 1985. She and her family left the following year to come back to Malta.

I visited Malta in 1998 and, just by pure coincidence, we met up at the Mellieha Bay Hotel where she was working. I was there because my sister was also working there. I saw her and thought 'she's a pretty lady', but I didn't recognise her. Anyway, after a while, on the way home, I asked my sister what her name was and she said, 'Joanne Sultana', but I still didn't make the link.

I went back a day later and I didn't see her, but she saw me and came up to me and said "Hello Robert".

I said "How do you know my name" and she said "I remember you from school, back in Australia."

I said "Wow, but that was 13 years ago!"

We then met up that night in Sliema and had a really nice time reminiscing about Australia and seeing what we had both been up to. I was supposed to be in Malta for only 3 months, but I'm still here today and I'm a permanent citizen now.

We got engaged in 1999.  I am a carpenter in Mosta and she is still working at the Mellieha Bay Hotel, living in Mellieha. We have two kids, Christopher, who is three, and Francesca who is two.

I suppose you could say our union was 13 years in the making!

Story added on the 25th August 2005