Shhhh! The Silent City: Malta, Day 9, Mdina (3/11/2017)

Cathedral in Mdina

Our last day in Malta - Urvi's Birthday - we took a one hour bus ride to the old capital - Mdina (The Silent City).

Old capped Well

Main gate from inside

Streets ready for Lent

St Paul's grotto.
St. Paul shipwrecked off the coast of Malta.  And when rescued, was brought ashore.
He is said to have preached beneath the city in this grotto.

Catacombs

Catacombs

Large bronze seal from the weird museum

Mosaic on the floor of a Roman House

I, Claudius, have no nose
in the sitting room of the Roman villa

Fontanella Tea Garden

In the Tea Garden with a Erdinger Dunkel on the bastion of Mdina overlooking most of Malta

Shields and whatnot

We had a birthday dinner at the Westin's fine dining restaurant - Quatro

Gozo Rose and dessert!

Cittadella: Malta Day 7, Gozo Citadel and Lord Chambray (3/9/2017)

Life Size picture frame - Ghajnsielem, Gozo

Today, Urvi and I walked to the Cittadella in Gozo's capital - Victoria or Rabat (about 6km).  Then visited the museums etc.  On the way back we stopped at Lord Chambray - the local craft brewery.

Gozo grain fields

Bronze Age grain silos, Cittadella

Urvi in the stocks

In jail without the Bail

Lunch at Ta' Rikardu

Drum at Folk Museum

model of fishing boat - Folk Musuem

Toward Ramla Bay from the Cittadella walls

Urvi on the Cittadella Walls toward Ghajnsielem

Cannons to the right of her

Its the Popa!

Lord Chambray

Taps at Lord Chambray

Rock Me Amadeus: Malta Day 4, Fort St Elmo and Figaro (3/6/2017)

View from our box

Day 4 in Malta -

Tour of Fort St Elmo and then Le Nozze Di Figaro at Teatru Manoel - the third oldest active theatre in Europe.

Valletta, You Betta: Malta Days 0 & 1 (3/2-3/3/2017)

Days 0 and 1 in Malta

Day 0 was landing, getting our airbnb, finding dinner and sleeping after not sleeping on 10 hours of plane trip.

Day 1 was a tour of Valletta:

Few from our airbnb

Co-Cathedral of St. John

Co-Cathedral of St. John

Venus of Malta, Museum of Archeology

Valetta City Gate

Found a Cannon

Walls of Valetta

Side street

Walking through the Walls

Cardinal so and so on the customs house

Urvi in some sort of sphere