The Malta diary of Mat & Kat Brown

Mat and Kat Brown write about their 'healthy glow' following a week in Malta:

Day 1 (Sun 14th) We visited Valletta, the capital of Malta. The city was quiet on a Sunday and I enjoyed wandering the narrow streets tightly packed with buildings displaying lots of variety in old balconies and shutters. Some buildings were in quite a state of decay but the streets as a whole had a lot of charm and character. Valletta is a fortified city on a peninsula with high walls built up around each side. The views were nice looking out from the city over the bay to the ‘Three Cities’ on the other side of the Grand Harbour.

Day 2 (Mon 15th) We saw lots of beautiful boats today, some huge and expensive and others modest and traditional. We started our touring with a coffee stop at St Julians Bay. We saw some of the traditional Maltese fishing boats, very sweetly painted in bright red, blue, yellow green and brown. We continued on to Vittoriosa, one of the ‘Three Cities’ across the Grand Harbour from Valletta. There were many fine super yachts moored in the Grand Harbour, very impressive. After lunch we visited Marsaxlokk, a traditional fishing village with more of the brightly painted Luzzu and Dghajsa boats and a market selling laces and other wares...

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