Barbara Bode's trip through history

US based travel writer Kim Davies blogs about Barbara Bode who joined AWAI in Paris and writes a regular column for In Touch, an upscale membership magazine for women. Kim describes her as a recent transplant from Washington to Malta. In fact Barbara now lives in Gozo and she wrote this article published last spring for Transitions Abroad:

Malta is a magical time machine where you are enveloped by history. For curious and adventuresome independent travelers, the island is a perfect off-season destination: affordable, infinitely interesting, safe, friendly, English-speaking….I spent a month there in January 2003 and was so entranced that I decided to move there.

More than a Mediterranean resort, Malta is a place of burial vaults built before the Pyramids, temples that pre-date Stonehenge, and caves from the Punic Wars. A dozen UNESCO Heritage sites dot the islands. You can see catacombs and viaducts erected by the Romans, villages established by Arabs, and the historic evidence from victorious battles against the Turks in 1565 and against the Axis powers in 1940. And then enjoy evenings out at the theater, opera, dinner, and the casino.

Malta Off Season - Take a Trip Through History by Barbara Bode

American Writers & Artists Institute and International Living (AWAI)

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