Malta (Finally)

Hey peoples,

so I've finally finally gotten around to the first Malta post. Hurray. The place I'm staying is pretty decent. I'm sharing a room with an English medical student. She seems pretty nice, so we've decided to be travel buddies and explore Malta together. Hurray, tomorrow we are going to Mdina for dinner. It's an old fortified city and is supposed to be gorgeously medieval.

This is Valletta. It is across the harbour from Sliema (where I'm staying) It was built in the 1500s by the Knights of Malta. These photos are from the promenade on Sliema's side of the harbour.

Anyway, first photos are the area around where I am staying.

The following photos are of the promenade itself. I was just down there an hour or so ago having ice cream for dessert. The ice cream here is amazing. I am going to come home super tubby.

On Sunday we went over to Gozo. That's a smaller more rural island that is still part of Malta but fiercely independent. It was a gorgeous warm day and we caught the ferry over early.

This is the view from the ferry as we approached Gozo's main harbour

We stopped for lunch in the capital of Gozo - Rabat (or Victoria). We ate on a roof top garden overlooking the main square. This is the restaurant plus the view (And in the photo below is my roommate)

After Lunch we wandered through the streets of Rabat a bit trying to find the citadel, turns out it was right near where we started. Below is St Georges.

I am very taken with the quaint little alley ways that are most of the streets around Malta. So here's a few pictures of what we saw while we were lost

All along the streets are these little religious shrines.

Eventually we managed to find the citadel. Which was an awesome complex to wander around and also had fantastic views over most of Gozo.

Then we went to the Ggantija temples. These are basically some of the worlds oldest ruins, well older than the pyramids or stonehenge, erected around 3600bc.

Finally we sat in one of the bars on the waterfront with a very nice local wine before catching the ferry home. Perfect end to the day.