If it's good enough for royalty...

Becky Hugh of the Telegraph explains why the Queen and Prince Philip decided to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Malta:

..To follow in the footsteps of the Queen and Prince Philip. The royal couple are preparing to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary on a private trip to Malta next week. There's nowhere better to catch the last of autumn's rays than this underrated jewel just south of Sicily.

A key staging post in the southern Mediterranean that's been fought over for thousands of years, this former British colony made up of seven islands was home to a young Philip, on duty with the Royal Navy, and his wife, Princess Elizabeth, before her accession to the throne.

The couple lived there in three long stretches between 1949 and 1951, and the Queen has spoken of her "deep affection" for the island nation and her carefree days there as a naval officer's wife. It was on Malta that the young married couple are said to have come closest to an ordinary life: staying in a villa, driving an open-top MG, eating in restaurants, and holding hands in the back row of the cinema...