As I promised you yesterday, here's another post about Malta.
North of the Island of Malta is the Islands of Gozo. It's really called Għawdex but the English couldn't figure out how to pronounce that so they called it Gozo.
We went to Gozo to see the Azure Window. It's a very impressive natural limestone arch.
Well, I say is, really the correct word is was. Just two weeks after we were there the whole thing collapsed in a storm! Julius insists that he had nothing to do with it but I have my doubts. Here's a better picture of the arch.
The area around the arch is very moon-like. It's full of tiny craters. Here's me enjoying my own reflexion in the water in one of the craters.
The locals are also very proud of the fact that they have an "inland sea". It's technically a lagoon that looks like a lake. Coming from a country that has almost 200 000 lakes it didn't seem that impressive, but come to think of it, it's kind of fascinating that Malta doesn't have a single lake or river...
The main town on Gozo is Victoria. Again, that's not what the locals call it. It's real name is ir-Rabat, but given that rabat just means suburb, the English decided that that wasn't good enough and gave it a proper name; Victoria. The main attraction there is the citadel. It's located on a hill on an otherwise fairly flat island, so you get a fantastic view of the island from there. Here's me and Julius on the wall of the citadel with the countryside in the background.
Here's a selfie from the citadel. The church in the background is the Cathedral of the Assumption.
On the way back to the harbour came across this wonderful concept. It's just an empty frame on the roadside, but it's situated at a place with a nice view of one the the many local churches. So you can take a picture of yourself and pretend you're in a painting. Unfortunately it was human-sized, so we look pretty insignificant.
That's all for today, folks. Tomorrow: beaches, fish and grapes! Ċaw!
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