Hello, it is Mezume here once again! This time, I will be going over another part of a summer holidays trip. For the leisure part, we went to Malta - a set of 3 beautiful islands that's a little bit of a cultural mish-mash between North Africa, the UK as well as Italy, which makes for an exciting architectural experience as well as simply a fun language to look at and listen to (although it is rare to hear it).
While it was a leisure holiday and we spent most of our time at the beach, we attempted to be as active as possible - we haven't been to a single beach more than once, we visited as many landmarks and interesting spots as we could and in general did a lot of stuff. Before we move on, here's a warning - as we were on a summer holiday, most out pictures are simply in our beachwear: if you prefer not to look at that, do skip this!
Malta consists of two main large islands - Malta and Gozo, as well as another main island but significantly smaller - Comino. There are multiple tiny islands as well as rocks that are included in the country's land. We made sure to visit them all, although our visit to Gozo was a little ruined by lack of time and well.. the fact we burnt awfully and couldn't enjoy it too much.
The island of Malta is the one that has most of the country's exciting spots, which makes sense considering it is both the largest and the most inhabited of the three. Potentially the most popular place is Marsaxlokk - this is the case mainly due to its instagrammable properties. To be completely honest, the village wasn't our favourite in Malta, but we do have to admit that it was great for pictures. On top of that, we could enjoy great icecream and a less crowded beach in a nearby village of Birżebbuġa.
Having great ice cream in Birżebbuġa
Fishing Village of Marsaxlokk but without the instagrammable clipping
Another place that's absolutely worth visiting in this country is one that's in an unlikely spot for a summer beach destination - the absolute center of the island. The place in question is an old city of Mdina, also known as the Silent City of Malta. It is a journey to the past, as the city was founded all the way in 8th century B.C. It even used to be the capital for a while, but Valletta took that title due to its much more strategic coastal placement.
What is magical about Mdina is that there are only 250 inhabitants and cars are disallowed to enter (with the exception of those that live here). This means you can just freely wander the streets and inhale the fresh air. While it is fairly tourist-y, the multiple signs asking for silence and respect for the inhabitants definitely help to keep it quiet.
If you ever visit Malta, make sure to go here - it's simply amazing. Just look here:
Let's next go to the beach! Another place we have been to is il-Mellieħa, a place quite close to Popeye Village (which we haven't visited). All we have done there was enjoy our time at the beach and walk around taking in the stunning views. Those were just difficult to describe with words, so I think it's best to let pictures speak for themselves.
As you see, it was just a great place to be. The sunset was astounding - we stayed there for extremely long just sitting and staring at it. In general, Malta was very friendly for sunset lovers.
I will split Malta up into two different posts, as I still have Gozo, Valletta and Blue Lagoon with tons of picture to show and I don't want to drag this on for too long. One interesting fact to note at the end is a little bit about buses. We travelled everywhere by bus and they were actually very comfortable, but also.. REALLY CROWDED. That was not the biggest problem however. The main thing was that it actually got fairly cold after sunset, despite the hot days, but we still had full AC in buses. It was incredibly cold inside and it is somewhat of a miracle we did not get awfully sick while we were holiday-ing!
That's it for today, but see you on Saturday on more exciting beach pictures, Valletta descriptions and the beautiful Blue Lagoon.
Looks like a very beautiful location!!
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We might consider moving to Malta :) Looks like you two had a great time!
Malta is absolutely great and a large chunk of the population are people who moved here from other countries in the past decades! I would love to live there myself for a few years! Happy 2021 :)
Great post! If I ever make it to Malta I'll be checking this as I plan!
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