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Exploring Victoria

Across the way from Ggantija is a windmill, also a tourist site.  In order to catch my bus (which runs…

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The other island

Gozo is often referred to as the ‘other’ island in the state of Malta (alongside the island of Malta), although…

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Mdina

As explained before, it is sometimes difficult to work out where one city ends and another begins.  Rabat Mdina are…

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Catacombs

I only had time to visit one of the three Heritage Malta sites in Rabat, having only arrived there around…

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Rabat

I hadn’t planned on coming to Rabat, in fact I only found out it was worth visiting until I was…

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Getting around Malta

Now is as good a time as any to tell you how I was getting around Malta.  I had heard…

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Air Battle of Malta

While in the car museum, I learned of the aircraft museum which commemorates the Air Battle of Malta in 1942. …

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More from the Car Museum in Malta

Since last week’s post, I was asked where in Malta this museum is.  Malta isn’t that big after all, at…

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Classic Cars

I had no idea there was a car museum on Malta when I decided to travel there.  I fact I…

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Beside the door

I started noticing images of holy figures beside the doors in Sliema when I was photographing the Gallarijas and how…

architecture, doors, Malta, Sliema, travel

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