Big moon over Malta

Kat and Marcos explain why they were surprised to discover that Malta was better than they expected:

We arrived late on a Friday night after a local transport strike we had been hearing about on the news had just been lifted… so we were hoping everything would be okay for us getting to and from the airport, and it was. Our hotel was right on the sea front, in a place called Sliema which is one of the main tourist spots. We arrived pretty late but still went out for a drink at a little bar down the road..

The next day, the sun was shining and it was really hot! So we decided to go straight to the island of Comino, which is a small uninhabited island right next to Malta. We caught a VERY scary Maltese bus to the port of Cerkewa. At one point I think we were on two wheels. They are just crazy drivers. We caught a ferry from the port to Comino, where we found the bluest water we had ever seen and a paradise-like island, with heaps of travellers and tourists swimming and finding space to sit on the cliff side..

We caught the boat back from Comino to Malta, and at night we went into St Julians, which is the main area for restaurants and bars. We caught buses everywhere and eventually got used to the insane drivers who all seemed to be in some kind of rally race and each had a different decoration on the side of their bus. St Julians was really pretty and we ate at a Maltese restaurant on the water. The moon was really big in Malta!

On Sunday, we went into the main city of Valetta, which is heritage listed and looks like a fortress, as it was built this way to protect the island. It was a really beautiful city, with big walls and old buildings. It had a few big old churches, and quite a few shops. In the afternoon, we caught the bus back to our hotel and then went swimming off the rock platforms in the ocean - it was a popular spot and a lot of people swim off these platforms, as there is no sandy beach in Sliema. Malta was a really beautiful place, and one that surprised us!