Malta Travel Blogs

Return To Malta.
Apr 1, 2004

... for the ferry. Fantastic views looking back at Mgarr harbour. (I put the photos on the wrong page, I,ll move them later.) I,m back in Malta by 11 am and a strong tail wind helps me to get over the ridges. I have to keep stopping to look back at the view ...

Walking tours of Vallatta, Rabat and Mdina.
Mar 29, 2004

The Maltese Tourist Office has produced some excellent little leaflets for self-guide walking tours of the main tourist areas, Valletta, Mdina, Victoria(Gozo). For a change I left the bike behind and tried out the leaflets. Good fun. I spent Monday ...

Gozo
Mar 31, 2004 (7 photos)

... in the wrong direction and that was when I noticed I was not where I thought I was. Back on the right road I found that Malta has a couple of steep climbs after all. I actually broke into a sweat getting over the last couple of hills to the harbour. A ...

Daily Excursions
Mar 28, 2004 (7 photos)

... what people thought of Malta. Him and the rest of his friends were good fun. During the conversation I discovered that Malta is looking forward to the EU, although small businesses are really worried that the competition will destroy them, bird hunting is ...

We haven't seen any Maltese falcons yet.
Aug 6, 2006 (4 photos)

... to leave here in a few hours and I am thinking of staging a sit in - I really don't want to leave!! I LOVE MALTA!! Our closing comments and observations on Malta: We used both cabs and busses. No big surprise; cabs were expensive and fast, ...

The Capital, The Restaurant & The English Bar
May 9, 2009 (38 photos)

We had a fantastic full day out today. First off, we jumped on one of the clapped out old local buses to Valetta. This was an entertaining journey to be sure - I am sure I saw the bright white light on three or four occasions!! Once in Valetta, and feet ...

Continuing the theme of 'Not Doing Much!'
May 11, 2009 (5 photos)

Nothing today except a visit to the supermarket and then a chill out on the terrace - brilliant!!

Managed to make it down to the beach!
May 12, 2009 (4 photos)

Golden Bay

An English fry up and then a walk round the area
May 8, 2009 (26 photos)

... Gardens. (The other Simon had to go in to work today). These gardens are very nice and well kept and are quite rare for Malta to be fair. They were actually setting up for some sort of weekend show and had loads of chickens in cages on display. Not ...

You call that a hippo, this is a hippo!
Oct 25, 2007 (59 photos)

... we go to a cave called/at Gar Dhalam where they have found fossilised remains of animals that just don't fit with Malta - hippos, elephants, deer, foxes, wolves - that all either suffered with/had evolved into dwarfism or gigantism (can't remember what ...

Merbha Malta. Welcome Malta.
Mar 26, 2004 (5 photos)

... really meant business. I found the Tourist Office just inside the main city gate. There I got the necessities, a map of Malta and a list of accommodation. I decided to head for The Hibernia Hostel in Sliema a few km away. The Hibernian Hostel is a ...

Last day of our travels.....for now.....
May 13, 2009

Flying Home Today

A lie in then an all dayer in the pub!
May 10, 2009 (8 photos)

... well - all for free!! Who needs restaurants when you've got bars like this! I want to live here....not just in Malta....right here...in this seat.....at this bar....right here!!! (Maybe an additional lap dancing feature to complete the dream)! Lorna ...

Oh Well...Off on holiday again!!
May 7, 2009

... hours and we did arrive 20 minutes early to be fair - the pilot must have known a short cut I suppose. When we arrived at Malta airport, the bus services had ceased for the evening so we had to grab a taxi. It was a bit expensive but as Claire had ...

Around and about Malta
Jun 3, 2006 (26 photos)

... not the two pommy birds that love pasta but dozens of fertility goddess figurines that have been excavated from various sites around Malta and Gozo (including Hagar Qim) and are now on display in the National Archaeological Museum in Valletta. Also, if you ...

Going down in Gozo
Jun 4, 2006 (17 photos)

... There are brands here, but I can't pronounce them. So I have to award this one to the tasty and not-too-difficult to pronounce Cisk (pron. Chisk). Malta's home grown beer delivers the goods at a reasonable price and with a nice ring to it to boot.

Malteser of an entry
Jun 1, 2006 (29 photos)

... to drive you out of trouble! As you would expect there are may examples of grand architecture from the times when Malta was the last Mediterranean outpost of the Church in its ongoing war with the Ottoman Turks. These include Grand Palaces, the ...

Home of the Knights
Jan 12, 2008 (105 photos)

... , I don't think I've seen that amount of churches in one place !!!   We had lunch but then found out that Malta hasn't realised that it's part of the EU. Generally in most EU countries, everything's open except Mondays, but Valletta was closed by 12 ...

Walls
Jan 13, 2008 (93 photos)

... and as I have been to the first two, I really needed to tick this one off of the list !!!   Finding places in Malta, can be a little hard. Some of the language looks Italian, whilst other bits look Arabic, and when they speak, it sounds Arabic, but ...

Malta in the middle
Sep 15, 2000 (6 photos)

... main form of transport is funky old school yellow buses still bearing British flags. There is a huge old ex-pat British influence in Malta. We finally managed to get to some of the beaches that turned out to be stunning. They were a half-hour bus ride ...

Blue Grotto amongst others.
Sep 29, 2007 (76 photos)

... certainly made up for it. As could be expected it totally dominates the town of Mosta and indeed the entire region of Central Malta. Perhaps the clincher for the Mosta Dome and the incident that makes it so special to the Maltese people is when 3 bombs ...

The Costa Cruise Experience
Nov 2, 2009 (59 photos)

... them all by replying to their greetings in Maori and had great satisfaction at silencing them even if only for a few seconds. Malta We really enjoyed this beautiful city again with its imposing huge brick city walls.  We visited a cathedral which was ...

Mdina, Rabat and Valetta
Mar 31, 2007 (6 photos)

... to walk around, and has of course a main cathedral and museum.  It's cool to see the differences in architecture between Malta and Sicily, even the rest of Italy as well.  There is definitely more of an Arab influence here than in Sicily, and it ...

Malta, MT
Aug 16, 2007 (5 photos)

... at The Sportsman's Motel/Espresso bar.  As you can see amenities even included a beautiful above ground pool, over looking Malta's very own grain storage warehouse. The central location included easy access to a Dairy Queen, train tracks and an ...

Poetry on the Rocks.
Oct 1, 2007 (6 photos)

... to purchase one of his books that day and also to get it signed. I remember packing the book but had not opened it since arriving in Malta. Today for some reason Nick's book of poetry popped into my head so I put it in my carry bag and took it with me to ...

Ancient Malta and water!
Apr 2, 2007 (5 photos)

... Lira (pound) even though the Euro is coming, so it is foreign but in English.  I can do this. :D However now I leave Malta against my better judgement (I'd happily just move in) and head back to Sicily to think in Italian for a few more days before ...

Valletta and a Date!
Sep 25, 2007 (15 photos)

... of Archaeology and the National Museum of the Arts. Both were very worthwhile, the latter containing many fantastic paintings of Malta from the 17th and 18th centuries along with numerous pieces of wooden furniture from that time. It was really enjoyable ...

Mdina & Rabat
Sep 23, 2007 (55 photos)

... limestone quarry site that depicts more recent history of Malta and explains the various stages of the limestone industry that provided Malta with the beautiful stones used to build the vast majority of the country's buildings over the last few centuries. ...

malta
Aug 10, 2007

... also got a bit burned(he just goes white again though not so lucky) 13th august. - bit of a lazy day last day in malta flying out tomorrow. spent the day sight seeing with marvic who i think is a danger on the roads almost got killed a few times went ...

Day 2 - Mellieha
Sep 18, 2007 (24 photos)

... my first real brush with the locals. My uncle in Australia, Freddy, like most ex-pats had a large family still living in Malta and apparently there were a few young female relatives of his that would be keen to show me around, sounded interesting. One in ...