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• A free gift for the birthday girl or boy

About Miss Ellen’s Travelling Treats

In their shop you will find:

• A wide selection of sweets by weight
• America n and English sweets
• A large selection of sugar free sweets
• Sweets not commonly found  in Malta

Their 60 year old Citroen Hy van travels throughout the island, serving a selection of sweet treats from their shop. Their van can also be hired for any event including weddings, birthday parties, private functions etc. They also create candy bags for children’s parties, candy tables, sweet trees, weddings- souvenirs and candy buffets/ candy tables and corporate events, and are always coming up with new unique ideas.

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Average user rating on Facebook 4.9 out 5, in other words, excellence of service !

‘ The sweets were very good and the service outstanding. You reminded me of of Charlie and the Chocolate factory. The presentation of the van is like a description in a fairy tale book ‘ – Josette Calleja

‘ Thank you for helping me make up my sons party bags got a lot of praise about them and about how good the sweets are!!! And thank you for all your patience whilst we were at your shop and my kids were running around all the shop!!! : )’ – Juanita Azzopardi

‘ Really liked your sweet shop I visited today 🙂 and the UK sweets are delicious! will definitely visit again and consider for any occasion :D’ – Stephanie Azzopardi

‘ Excellent service with a smile. And was able to get get sweets that I normally get from the UK woohoo !!’ – Meanaxi Pace

‘ A big thank you for the personalised sweets you made for us last week. Everyone loved them. Superb service . X’ – Elaine Gatt

‘ Thanks for the lovely goodies for Valentine’s. Excellent products and great service . 🙂 x’ – Jenny Hill

‘ Excellent service, and the sweets were just outstanding. Thank you ‘ – Shakyra Jonsson

‘ Excellent & friendly service! Unique sweets & gifts! Definitely recommend friends to visit this shop :)’ – Fleur FX

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Address: Triq Lunzjata, right behind Lidl in Santa Venera, Il-Hamrun, Malta Phone: 99170777 Facebook: Miss Ellen’s Travelling Treats Email: [email protected]

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Easter eggs which are a little more special – Miss Ellen’s travelling treats

Sarah McGourty and Sandro Grech , co-owners of Miss Ellen’s travelling treats believe in supplying Easter eggs which are a little less traditional, but a little more special.

“We try and get things which aren’t readily available on the island, like salted caramel eggs. One particular kind is chocolate with hazelnut truffle, covered by a real, painted egg shell,” said the Irish and Maltese duo.

“People do come in looking for the traditional kind, and we sell many smaller items as Easter gifts. Since we are not a supermarket and we don’t get big quantities, the cost is going to be a little bit higher. Keeping that in mind we try and get different things, something a bit more special which is worth spending that little bit extra,” Ms McGourty continued.

Miss Ellen’s travelling treats is well-known for their colourful and vibrant sweet-van. Going back to the origins, Ms McGourty said:

“We opened about two years ago, just after Christmas. We never planned to open a shop; my mum came up with the idea of opening up a sweet shop specifically. I didn’t really like the idea while I was in Ireland. I later came round to the idea, more along the lines of a sweet van. In my head I was thinking of something similar to an ice-cream van, I realised later you can’t really run around in summer with sweets in a van.”

Having worked during a placement programme on the island during her University studies, Ms McGourty said that the plan was always to come back to Malta.

“We were looking at the old English style ice-cream vans and Sandro found the one we have today. He said there are none like it on the island, so I said let’s get it. We brought it over from England and it took ages to set up.”

“The van came maybe in September, and this was coming up close to Christmas. I worried that it could be 6 months before we get it sorted. I said let’s put the van into a shop until it’s ready for the road, and make a shop out of it. We got discouraged, but we luckily managed to make use of the shop we are in today through somebody else’s kindness.”

She added that upon receiving advice from a friend, they decided to keep the shop as a base rather than operate out of the van exclusively.

“It took time to get the shop looking like this however. It took the best part of two years to actually get it to a point where it is sustainable.

Challenges of running a sweet-business

Asked about what the biggest challenge was in terms of getting the business off the ground, she said that just getting people into the store was definitely it.

“I find, generally speaking, many here think that if they go into a shop they feel the need to buy something. It’s hard to get people in to just have a look; we are obviously not in the best location for foot traffic. You often find people spend time looking through the window rather than coming in. “

“Through Facebook people got to know where our shop was and what we sold. With the van driving around people could have a look at a distance, this helped with recognition. The van was obviously used for many events and parties, this helped a lot.”

Traditional sweets

“ We sell many of the sweets by weight. Many older people and English people are used to this traditional pick and mix. When i was younger this is how I bought my sweets. That kind of made a name as well.”

“We started with 80 varieties, now we have about 250. There’s so much out there on the market, it unbelievable. When somebody comes in looking for a simple cola-bottle sweet, they would have no idea how many different kinds there are. That’s the fun bit about pick and mix.”

Children will go for stuff they have seen online. If they are with an adult the adult might say get a pick and mix.

“People will come in and choose what they know. I have found in my experience that the Maltese are not very keen on hard candy, they prefer the softer and chewier kind. I was very surprised to see how popular jelly babies are.”

“I’ve learnt a lot since starting the business. What I found interesting is the difference between men and women, whether they are young children or adults. Men seem at a loss when they walk into the shop, having no idea what to choose. I find that women know exactly what they are looking for. It reminds me of how women shop for shoes, they are attracted to a certain style and are very decisive.”

“What I’ve also found is that people here seem to be afraid to ask for what they want, as though they are a nuisance. Having worked at a fine-dining restaurant, my expectations of what services should be offered are very high. People also seem to feel pressured to buy something when they come in. I disagree with this, people shouldn’t feel this way and by looking in at least they would know what’s on offer should they need to come back in the future.”

“Another interesting thing I’ve noticed here is how polite children are. When they come into the shop and we greet them, we always get a smile and a greeting back, I don’t think adults here are so used to being spoken to and greeted when entering a shop.”

Asked about what her typical customer looks like, Ms McGourty said that there no observable pattern, and that all sorts of people come into the shop. She said that whether it is children looking for a treat after school, parents who want to surprise their children or adults just looking for a little comfort, the customers vary a lot.

“In business, I always thought a Friday should be better than a Monday, because of the weekend, but every day is different. It can get very frustrating. On a slow day, you’re left thinking about what went wrong, and then the next day would be a good one. It’s hard to predict when will be good and when will be slow.”

“I never imagined a shop like this. When it was first suggested to me, I pictured a corner shop. I never pictured anything like the shop we have today. I must say however that it took a long time for the shop to look like what it does today. All the furniture is recycled – Sandro is the one to put it all together and do something creative with what we find. He does all the displays and makes the shop and van look so colourful and inviting.”

Turning back to Easter, Ms McGourty said that she expected many people to visit the shop over the weekend, looking for a last minute Easter present. With summer on the way, she added that they are now thinking about which sweets need to be removed, as they do not keep well under the blistering Maltese sun.

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137 il-lunzjata Street Hamrun, V close to Lidl St Venera . Contact; 77671734/ 99170777

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Address : 137 Triq il-lunzjata, Il-Hamrun, Malta

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Great place where to find childhood sweets of a long time ago. Also an original style decorated shop.

Friendly service and a huge selection of retro candy from the US and all over the world!

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They have a pretty good mix of candy from the USA all the way to Japan, all staff members are quite smiley and helpful. They also have a small candy van that goes near my school (MCAST) and most probably some other places around the island.

The cutest candy shop in Malta, treats from the UK and the USA. Everyone can find some delightful sweets from this place.

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Great selection of rare foreign treats and sweets. Friendly service.

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I'm so mad. Yesterday at the event Halloween In Nadur at your stand the cash register man was Skipping people and I was before 3 people and he served them. Why is it expensive? Prime for €13.99 at Arkadia it's €2.89 Unbelievable. Not recommended 0 stars

What an awesome place to get your cravings for sugary and sour treats fullfilled. You have to get a bit lucky on the parking but once that is sorted head on in and be amazed by the unbelievable choice of exotic candy! Great place for those whose life is driving by Tik Tok influencers like my two teens who got a kick from finding food and beverages they had seen on Tik Tok challenges! The only thing I did not like was the grab and go section of candy where they were stored in big glass cilinders that looked like they had not been cleaned for a while! For the rest - well worth a visit!

To expensive. I got prime from here that costed 13.99 euros but from a another store it costed me 7.00 euros.

Super friendly and convenient services! Also very quick delivery perfectly on time for a friend's birthday! Thank you!

Love the shop, I usually order online, but if I'm lucky enough to catch the Miss Ellen's truck driving around I will always stop by and pick something up, anything. I've caught the truck while walking around with my girlfriend on random dates, I caught the truck in days when I could had used a nice sweet pick me up and I've even caught the truck on local events like the recent food festival in Valletta. The main reason I love Miss Ellen's so much is cause I've lived about half my life abroad in the US, and it's always such a great opportunity to pick something up I haven't seen in years, or to show something a friend that they had never tried. Lots of good memories of showing people foreign treats and snacks, made possible by Miss Ellen's. Truly deserved to be preserved and cherished as a local attraction in Malta.

I loved trying all of the international sweets that I ordered. Their delivery service is also very efficient! Would highly recommend ordering from Miss Ellen's

Not as good as it used to be a few years ago. It switched theme from a candy store to a party store. Not the great original sweets he once had. And 6 euros for a packet of crisps is too much

Thank you for helping us make our children's Christmas sweeter:) All the goodies were prepared and packed in paper bags with pretty labels. Your wide range of product suits the teens as well as they get the chance to taste sweets they do not find anywhere else in the shops. It was a treat for me that you delivered as it saved me the hassle to drive around. Now Santa's stash is ready for the 25th. Best wishes

Great place and amazing delivery experience, getting all my favorite treats delivered right to my door. They were helpful and communication was clear, would buy again:)

Thank you for your help brilliant service would highly recommend very helpful good delivery service prompt with a good selection of lovely sweets.

I ordered candy cones for my son’s baptism and order was processed within a couple of days including labels on each one. I have ordered several times and you always delivered a good service. Thank you Miss Ellen ️

Ordered some treats online and was very pleased with my purchase. The staff was very good at keeping me updated on the progress of my delivery. Thank you!

A gorgeous selection of unusual treats; candy reminiscent of childhood carefree days; candy worthy of a memorable feast for children and adults alike. The shop is kept in pristine condition, with gorgeous displays. The service is top notch with knowledgeable staff, friendly and helpful. Organising a party? This shop is a source of inspiration!?

I have bought several times sweets from the little van and was always happy with my purchase. For the 1st time, I have placed my order online. The staff was very helpful and kept me updated about my delivery. Will definitely order again.

A bit off of the main street this lovely little shop offers a wide variety of all kinds of sweets. However I found it a little disappointing as I couldn't find the sweets I was looking for.

Every country I travel to I look for a store that sells American Candy. This one is the best in Europe I've been to. She has almost everything, its a bit expensive but what can you do

Cute little sweet shop and equally cute van with a large variety of sweets including sugar free products.

Great service. This is the 4th birthday i am buying candy for. This time the assistant helped me choose better even though they were buay

Great place where to find childhood sweets of a long time ago. Also an original style decorated shop.

They have a pretty good mix of candy from the USA all the way to Japan, all staff members are quite smiley and helpful. They also have a small candy van that goes near my school (MCAST) and most probably some other places around the island.

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Miss Ellen's Travelling Treats

Phone: 99170777 Opening times: Mon: 9:30 am - 7:30 pm Tue: 9:30 am - 7:30 pm Wed: 9:30 am - 7:30 pm Thu: 9:30 am - 7:30 pm Fri: 9:30 am - 7:30 pm Sat: 9:30 am - 7:30 pm Sun: An authentic retro sweet shop/van, with all your old time favourites; ABC Candy, Humbugs etc We also offer a wide selection of sugar free sweets.

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We are Malta's first retro sweet shop AND we have the very first Mobile retro sweet van. In our shop you will find a wide se lection of sweets by weight, American and English sweets. Our 60 year old Citroen Hy van travels throughout the island, serving a selection of sweet treats from our shop. Our van can also be hired for any event; weddings, birthday parties, private functions, corporate events. We also create candy bags for children's parties, weddings- souvenirs and candy buffets/ candy tables and corporate events.

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Okhotny Ryad station in Soviet times and today.

The Moscow metro system has 275 stations, and 28 of them have been renamed at some point or other—and several times in some cases. Most of these are the oldest stations, which opened in 1935.

The politics of place names

The first station to change its name was Ulitsa Kominterna (Comintern Street). The Comintern was an international communist organization that ceased to exist in 1943, and after the war Moscow authorities decided to call the street named after it something else. In 1946, the station was renamed Kalininskaya. Then for several days in 1990, the station was called Vozdvizhenka, before eventually settling on Aleksandrovsky Sad, which is what it is called today.

The banner on the entraince reads: "Kalininskaya station." Now it's Alexandrovsky Sad.

Until 1957, Kropotkinskaya station was called Dvorets Sovetov ( Palace of Soviets ). There were plans to build a monumental Stalinist high-rise on the site of the nearby Cathedral of Christ the Saviour , which had been demolished. However, the project never got off the ground, and after Stalin's death the station was named after Kropotkinskaya Street, which passes above it.

Dvorets Sovetov station, 1935. Letters on the entrance: "Metro after Kaganovich."

Of course, politics was the main reason for changing station names. Initially, the Moscow Metro itself was named after Lazar Kaganovich, Joseph Stalin’s right-hand man. Kaganovich supervised the construction of the first metro line and was in charge of drawing up a master plan for reconstructing Moscow as the "capital of the proletariat."

In 1955, under Nikita Khrushchev's rule and during the denunciation of Stalin's personality cult, the Moscow Metro was named in honor of Vladimir Lenin.

Kropotkinskaya station, our days. Letters on the entrance: "Metropolitan after Lenin."

New Metro stations that have been opened since the collapse of the Soviet Union simply say "Moscow Metro," although the metro's affiliation with Vladimir Lenin has never officially been dropped.

Zyablikovo station. On the entrance, there are no more signs that the metro is named after Lenin.

Stations that bore the names of Stalin's associates were also renamed under Khrushchev. Additionally, some stations were named after a neighborhood or street and if these underwent name changes, the stations themselves had to be renamed as well.

Until 1961 the Moscow Metro had a Stalinskaya station that was adorned by a five-meter statue of the supreme leader. It is now called Semyonovskaya station.

Left: Stalinskaya station. Right: Now it's Semyonovskaya.

The biggest wholesale renaming of stations took place in 1990, when Moscow’s government decided to get rid of Soviet names. Overnight, 11 metro stations named after revolutionaries were given new names. Shcherbakovskaya became Alekseyevskaya, Gorkovskaya became Tverskaya, Ploshchad Nogina became Kitay-Gorod and Kirovskaya turned into Chistye Prudy. This seriously confused passengers, to put it mildly, and some older Muscovites still call Lubyanka station Dzerzhinskaya for old times' sake.

At the same time, certain stations have held onto their Soviet names. Marksistskaya and Kropotkinskaya, for instance, although there were plans to rename them too at one point.

"I still sometimes mix up Teatralnaya and Tverskaya stations,” one Moscow resident recalls .

 “Both have been renamed and both start with a ‘T.’ Vykhino still grates on the ear and, when in 1991 on the last day of my final year at school, we went to Kitay-Gorod to go on the river cruise boats, my classmates couldn’t believe that a station with that name existed."

The city government submitted a station name change for public discussion for the first time in 2015. The station in question was Voykovskaya, whose name derives from the revolutionary figure Pyotr Voykov. In the end, city residents voted against the name change, evidently not out of any affection for Voykov personally, but mainly because that was the name they were used to.

What stations changed their name most frequently?

Some stations have changed names three times. Apart from the above-mentioned Aleksandrovsky Sad (Ulitsa Kominterna->Kalininskaya->Vozdvizhenka->Aleksandrovsky Sad), a similar fate befell Partizanskaya station in the east of Moscow. Opened in 1944, it initially bore the ridiculously long name Izmaylovsky PKiO im. Stalina (Izmaylovsky Park of Culture and Rest Named After Stalin). In 1947, the station was renamed and simplified for convenience to Izmaylovskaya. Then in 1963 it was renamed yet again—this time to Izmaylovsky Park, having "donated" its previous name to the next station on the line. And in 2005 it was rechristened Partizanskaya to mark the 60th anniversary of victory in World War II. 

Partizanskaya metro station, nowadays.

Another interesting story involves Alekseyevskaya metro station. This name was originally proposed for the station, which opened in 1958, since a village with this name had been located here. It was then decided to call the station Shcherbakovskaya in honor of Aleksandr Shcherbakov, a politician who had been an associate of Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev had strained relations with Shcherbakov, however, and when he got word of it literally a few days before the station opening the builders had to hastily change all the signs. It ended up with the concise and politically correct name of Mir (Peace).

The name Shcherbakovskaya was restored in 1966 after Khrushchev's fall from power. It then became Alekseyevskaya in 1990.

Alekseyevskaya metro station.

But the station that holds the record for the most name changes is Okhotny Ryad, which opened in 1935 on the site of a cluster of market shops. When the metro system was renamed in honor of Lenin in 1955, this station was renamed after Kaganovich by way of compensation. The name lasted just two years though because in 1957 Kaganovich fell out of favor with Khrushchev, and the previous name was returned. But in 1961 it was rechristened yet again, this time in honor of Prospekt Marksa, which had just been built nearby.

Okhotny Ryad station in 1954 and Prospekt Marksa in 1986.

In 1990, two historical street names—Teatralny Proyezd and Mokhovaya Street—were revived to replace Prospekt Marksa, and the station once again became Okhotny Ryad.

Okhotny Ryad in 2020.

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