Larkin, Nico, Nora, Tania and Silvio Abela of Adventure Camping: By Royal Appointment – purveyors of The North Face to the House of Muscat
Tania Abela, wife of Silvio and mother of Nico, Larkin and Nora.
An insight into their mentality: daddy Silvio and the two sons Larkin and Nico line up their cars, which are named after them, for a family portrait. The daughter is not included.
Larkin Abela
Silvio Abela, husband of Tania and father of Larkin, Nico and Nora
Nora Abela
Nico Abela
Silvio Abela, rabid Mintoffian and member of the police Special Mobile Unit (SMU) in the Golden Years of Labour, with his sons Nico and Larkin and his daughter Nora
Nora Abela with her brother. He might be the sort to have his eyebrows plucked and shaped, but this still doesn’t make the pose appropriate for siblings.
Nora Abela fails to make her appointment at Natius Ola
Larkin and Nico Abela took part in the Labour Party’s propaganda campaign videos
And they were part of Labour’s ‘I’m In’ team
Tania Abela comes out of the same grand Maltese mould as those other Labour stalwarts Grace Borg and Phyllis Muscat
Tania Abela goes to Disneyworld
Tania Abela – she is from Valletta, obviously San Duminku
Her is Tania Abela in her maiden days, with her friends from the lower reaches of Valletta. She’s the one on the far left, which makes you really wonder how she ended up looking like Grace Borg. What happens to Maltese women – is it the genes or the habits?
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Larkin – or is it Nico? – doesn’t exactly project the rugged, man-of-action brand image of the family business, does he?
Plucking eyebrows can be painful. I think.
Those names sound like they belong on those soft American style cigarette packets, circa 1972
Kemm batew taht in-Nazzjonalisti hux?
They seem to be a tight knit lot, quite into each other.
The darling buds.
The last picture; are they all wearing surgical shoes?
It seems like they suffered a lot under the Nationalist government with all those brand new cars and Disneyland holidays. You don’t blame them for voting Labour.
Il-marelli, how classy.
I don’t know why, but Nico and Larkin remind me of newly hatched chicks.
Seeing that fleet makes rat rods ever more exclusive to a special breed of people.
The joys of resin lacquer, coker tyres and Mexican weave rugs. 6.25 is absolutely delicious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XGPbUHKzlA
We’re so old.
Qatilhom bil-guh Gonzi msieken.
What a cheap, tacky, horrible lot. Jaqq.
Il-hama tal-hamallagni mill-Belt.
Min jaf x’jitaqlleb La Vallette.
Bhalissa qed jitqalleb Giovanni Bonello…
These are the same people being given the permission by successive nationalist governments to set up and sell tents in Kennedy Grove.
Then they were given a very good site to build their own campsite…at Mellieha. They must have struggled under the PN. No wonder they vote Labour.
I see, are they by any chance, the ones who won’t have any other campsite forcing a stalemate?
No wonder they voted Labour indeed.
One way to kill the competition , vote Labour and then it becomes Taghna Biss.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20030530/local/armier-camp-site-developer-meets-another-snag.149047#.Upz6x-KwXOM
The land for the campsite was ‘awarded’ to Silvio Abela in 1997 by a then labour government.
They got that Mellieha site in 1997 from Alfred Sant’s government.
In response to your post below about his interesting past, what else do you know about the first wife and British daughter?
Taht in-Nazzjonalisti dan Silvio Abela ex surgent tal-pulizija faxxista ta’ Mintoff, inghata camping site fil-Mellieha u ma nahsibx li uliedhu (ta’ ma nafx liema mara ghax kien mizzewweg wahda Ingliza qabel) kollha gawdew minn edukazzjoni b’xejn li ghamel gvern Nazzjonalista – avolja edukazzjoni ma tantx ghandhom ghax jidhru salt hamalli primi bil-vetturi fast and furious tal-hamalli li huma.
U bilhaqq nesa kemm gera mal-Brigata Laburista u kkummiedja taparsi jmexxi rigment brigadisti Mintuffjani fit-toroq ta’ rahlu? Nesa kemm ippurcinella mal-avukat Camilleri bil-brigadisti li mexxew?
I don’t know, but the boys’ bodies seem to be too small for their heads. Are they getting enough to eat? Did they get enough protein growing up? Or is that some kind of recessive Spanish gene?
They made their money under 25 years of PN administration, but think the days of import licences, import quotas, 175% duty on ‘luxuries’, foreign exchange control and import substitution, when daddy was a policeman and couldn’t break into business, were so much better.
Msieken.
Nico declares that he speaks ‘American English’. That figures. He learned his English from films.
Well he was never going to learn it from his parents, was he.
He must have learnt it at that posh school Silvio paid for him and his brother to attend.
Totally freaky.
Go on Silvio, show us a photo of your girlfriend – you know, the one who used to tag along with you when you tried to make a deal for the ‘Ahrax’ camp site.
Interesting.
Not half as interesting as the rest of his story. Silvio Abela’s first wife back in the 1980s when he was a policeman with the SMU was a British woman. They had a daughter together.
That wife left him and, during separation proceedings in court, accused him of beating her and of lurid, violent behaviour in other quarters. She fled to Britain and took the child with her.
Silvio then mated with this Tania mill-Belt, who already had a child by a Sicilian to whom she was briefly married (Nora – which is why Nora has a Sicilian surname; she isn’t Silvio’s).
Tania and Silvio then had two sons together, Larkin and Nico. They married after their spouses divorced them in Britain and Italy.
Silvio played no part in the life of his British daughter, who was brought up by her mother, and has only just got back in touch with her and met his grandchildren (her children) for the first time.
Oh, and don’t be fooled by Nora’s man-eating poses. She’s a lesbian who used to date a hairdresser who dumped her. One of her half-brothers looks to be gay as well, if not both of them, which makes you wonder about all this rubbish said about homosexuality not being genetic.
And you have to notice that they didn’t imprison themselves in LGBT Labour like the other suckers, but stayed in the mainstream with the hoodie crowd.
Tell us more…….
Observer if you show from where do you come from im sure i find some hammalli to in your where abouts gonzi,borgolivier,and much more are from vallette .dont be stupid.
[Daphne – You misunderstand Observer, who meant to say that like all Mediterranean port-towns, Valletta is a place of social extremes. Was a place of social extremes, because one extreme has moved out lock, stock and barrel, leaving just the other and a few random newcomers. Clever nick, by the way.]
If were at the Tax Compliance Unit, I’d ask myself how five people can live off the profit from a niche shop like that, and buy and drive cars like those.
Yes, particularly when a constant lament is how the regular sort of customer only wants to buy cheap stuff.
The camp site is anything but niche, and Abela was handed the monopoly on a silver platter by a massively naive or conniving Nationalist government. So much for PN economic liberalism, but that’s by the by.
He got that camp site in 1997 – Labour government.
The picture in Mdina reminds me of a currently popular TV series ‘The Walking Dead’. The fat zombie on the right looks particularly hungry.
Wonder why people are still so stupid to buy their overpriced stuff when you can get them half the price on sites like Amazon
Lying, thieving scum. My memory harks back to approximately 14 years ago when I started to renew my camping equipment.
Back then, there were two major suppliers – this bugger and a small shop in Testaferrata Street which is now closed.
The chap at Testaferrata Street supplied a particular brand (a veru reputable one). Our friend Silvio also sold a very reputable brand (which was more expensive). Naturally, he rubbished his competitor’s brand. A few years later he became the agent for his ex-competitor’s brand. Overnight, the brand he loathed so much became the best on the market.