The Hypogeum! ( and Tarxien temples.. and the Festa at Victoria)

Yesterday evening we went to another Festa, this time in the capital of Gozo, Victoria!  Muich the same deal as the one in San Lawrenz, but on a much bigger scale;
There was also a fireworks display running pretty much the entire night.
As well as that, we finally got Hypogeum tickets!!  So today we got back [...]

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Valletta Grand Harbour, Catacombs in Rabat & train ride around Mtarfa & Mdina!

Yet another action packed day today- we headed over to the mainland again and, like the bus pro’s we now are, got our selves over to Rabat (via Sleima > Velletta > then the number 80 bus to Mdina)
While in Valletta we wondered over to the east-side to have a look at the Grand Harbour [...]

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Popeye Village & the Red Tower

Twenty Nine years ago (1980) a film was made in Malta- Popeye. On the North West tip of the malta mainland, by the Gozo Ferry, there is “Popeye village”- a small village constructed for the purpose of this film, and left on as a tourist attraction. This musical crime against cinema saw a [...]

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The Biggest, Small Island’s

Malta is Tiny- we flew past the whole thing on our way in to land at the airport. Gozo is even smaller- not even warranting it’s own black dot on most old skool (paper based) atlases. Despite this, transport is a bit more of an issue than I had naively imagined. Because [...]

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