Day 574, 7 Jan '16, Malta Pass Day 3, Must. Keep. Going. We have been sightseeing like crazy and have made it to Day 3. Mdina, Ta'Qali, Naxxar, Mellieha, Qawra and FlatTyre. The on-the-ball among you might notice that last place name looks a bit funny - can assure you the incident wasn't though. (Also Days 564 and 565 were doing the time warp... and weren't to be published til 2016... has been amended!) 1. (9.00 am) Domus Romana - Roman House in Rabat, just ou...

Day 573, 6 Jan '16, Malta Pass Day 2, It had to happen... by the end of Day 2 our feet were just too darn sore to visit the final planned attraction. Just a cave. Ice age mammal fossils. Probably cold and dark and another 40 minutes driving on bone-shaking roads. Seen caves before. Of course up until 3 pm when we called it quits... we went ballistic! 1. (9.00 am) Hagar Qim & Mnajdra Temples. Old. Real Old. Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge old. The st...

Day 572, 5 Jan '16, Malta Pass Day 1. What, pray tell, is a Malta Pass? Well first off it's the thing we were patiently waiting for in Turkey for weeks - before we spent a day exploring the vagaries of the Turkish Postal Service (perfect oxymoron). But more specifically, a city pass (or in this case a country pass) is where you cough up a certain amount, here €49 each, and then can go to as many attractions and sites within 3 days as is humanly possible. We ...

Days 570-571, 3-4 Jan '16, A Suite Deal Indeed... We enjoyed a local hotel for a posh Christmas buffet lunch and found an excellent deal for a night's stay at the same time. Suffice to say there were a couple of issues during the stay that led to a chat with management and they were wonderful. So wonderful they offered us another one night stay with breakfast included. On Sunday we packed our toothbrushes and zoomed off to the hotel only to find that we were i...

Days 568-569, 1-2 Jan '16, Rest Days in Qrendi/Mdina by Night... Every so often we do nothing. Some places more so, some less. But sooner or later we decide enough's enough and it's feets up for the day with Kindles, iPads, photos and pre-search. So we spent a couple of days doing that... and by the evening of the second day it was time to venture forth from the Hardie-Hobbit Hole. We heard that Mdina, the old capital city of Malta (now population 300!) would ...