Embed from Getty Images Maybe the above is a little strongly worded, but it will suffice for the purposes here. Because frankly, a lot of people don’t have the first notion about Malta, if they’ve even heard of it at…
Author: David
Times Square is a popular pub down on the Sliema seafront. For a beer – absolutely fine. For a delicious breakfast, not so much. I would go so far as to call this offering: Average. It is a pretty nice…
This is a continuation of a very compressed history of Malta. Here’s part one.Now where were we? Okay, in 1530, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V decided to give the islands to the Knights of Malta, and all he asked was…
High season in Malta runs from April to October, so obviously this is the time to be looking for work in bars and restaurants.
Malta is still a country strongly influenced by Catholicism, so it is perhaps unsurprising that Easter celebrations here are quite an event. Good Friday – which is a public holiday – features rather grave processions and actors dressed up as…
Malta is dotted with prehistoric temple sites, and there are two beside each other on the west coast of the island, very near the Blue Grotto. For a mere nine euros you get to visit both of them plus the…