If you are lucky, your trip to Malta will coincide with a local festival or ‘festa’. And to be honest, you don’t even need to be all that lucky, as there were 122 of them a year at last count.
A rare public park among the browns and whites of built up Malta, the Upper Barrakka Gardens are on the east of the city – just turn right when you go through the main gates. Nice place to sit down…
Nice location here, where you can sit outside and have your breakfast looking out over George’s Bay. And here is the breakfast you will be served:
The ticket seller gave an audibly fed up sigh when I handed him a €20 to pay for my €6 ticket to the museum. “You don’t have six euros?” Sometimes, shopping in Malta with anything larger than a fiver you…
Paceville is where people go to have a good time. Generally the people in question are teenagers or in their early twenties, mostly (but certainly not all) foreigners. The party district itself is pretty small: from a small open square…
Short answer? Just under one and a half million per year. July 2012 was one of the busiest months on record, about 175,000 people making it over to the island. Which is a lot, when you consider the island’s population…