How can I have a travel blog and not talk about my incredible Honeymoon in 2016? Well, it has been a while, but my memories from the Seychelles are probably some of my most vivid still. I had dreamed of going to the Seychelles for my Honeymoon ever since I was in High School. Sometime in the mid-1990’s the Chicago Tribune’s Travel section had a massive article about the Seychelles with a big banner photograph of the Anse Source D’Argent…
We took a relatively quick detour to see Mdina Malta on the last day of our trip. We were already a bit exhausted and suffering a bit of tourist burn-out, but Brian and I definitely wanted to see a few Game of Thrones filming sites and Mdina is a really cool and unusual fortified city that you really shouldn’t miss seeing while in Malta. We drove here after our Blue Grotto excursion which you can read about here. It took…
Visiting the Blue Grotto on the southern tip of Malta was the one experience I was looking forward to the most on this trip. Promises of crystal clear, bright blue-green waters, incredible cliffs and rock formations and views made me yearn with anticipation for this jaunt. It was everything I hoped it would be! Getting here was super easy from Valletta. It was about a 25 minute drive straight south and there were good signs. There is a free parking…
As I’ve mentioned in a previous article, I was not really super into neolithic history and temples and things before coming to Malta. Seeing the temples and caverns for myself, though, really changed my mind. We came to the Ggantija Temples during our day trip to Gozo. Check out the full itinerary for our day on Gozo Island here! These are the oldest and largest of the neolithic temples in Malta, and they really were super cool, and you could…
My brother and I were always massive fans of the Ghostbusters franchise. I remember when he was a little kid, he would run around with his proton pack with his buddies in the neighborhood busting ghosts. We watched the two original movies so many times, I’m pretty sure we have them both memorized. One summer, in 2009, we decided that we would create our own tour around New York City, checking out all the filming locations we could find from…
After doing a bunch of research and watching some YouTube videos about The Blue Lagoon, I was completely turned off by going there via big tour expedition or trying to take a smaller boat to the place from a nearby beach. The place is beautiful, but extremely small and crowded, so I started to look for other options to see the Lagoon, and came across Sailing Charters Malta on Viator in order to book a private sail to the Blue…
Gozo is Malta’s second-largest island. It’s known for a laid back “country” vibe, cool beaches, and scenery, so we decided to spend a day here while on our trip to Malta. We rented a car, so we got up super early in Valletta and drove about 45 minutes to the Ferry terminal at the northern tip of Malta. We put our car right on the ferry for the 15-20 minute ride across the channel to Gozo. The ferry itself is…
It is pretty much impossible for me at this point to go to a city, especially in Europe, and not do a food tour. As I’ve mentioned before in several articles, it’s a great way to get to know a city, try some traditional food, and find some hidden gems. This time, I booked a private tour for three of us through Offbeat Malta Food Trails. I would have done a regular tour of theirs, but at this time they…
When our oldest decided to go to Malta for her graduation trip (one year delayed due to COVID), of course, the first thing we wondered was whether there were any Caravaggio paintings to be viewed there. He did spend a year and a half in Malta and was even accepted into the Order of the Knights of St. John AKA the Knights of Malta. This was, of course, until he killed the Knights’ organist, was thrown in prison, kicked out…
Anyone who visits Malta will quickly find out, if they didn’t already know, that there is a ton of really cool prehistoric stuff to see on the islands. I personally didn’t know much about it, and am not super into prehistory, but visiting some of the sites around Malta really enlightened me about this virtually unknown period of time over 5000 years ago. This article is going to discuss two sites which are within walking distance of one another, and…