Category: Malta

  • Comino Island: more than just the Blue Lagoon

    Comino Island: more than just the Blue Lagoon

    Anyone planning a trip to Malta will probably have seen photos of the Blue Lagoon on Comino Island: clean, vivid, turquoise water, veritably a mini tropical paradise. But Comino Island is more than just the Blue Lagoon, and I’m going to express the unpopular opinion that you might want to…

  • Six things I wish I had known before travelling to Malta

    Six things I wish I had known before travelling to Malta

    I travelled to Malta for a bit of winter sun, expecting to take a few boat trips, sip coffee in the sunshine and maybe visit a few churches. I was not expecting Malta to have such a complex history, or such a mixture of cultural influences. I wished I had…