As well as being stunning, Malta has an interesting history and culture. Tour the Megalithic temples, step back in time at the Classic Car Museum, spend a day in Gozo and visit the Sunday Fish Market at Marsaxlokk.
If you’re visiting Malta between April and September, you will get to experience Feast Season. With a friendly rivalry between villages, celebrations often start up to a fortnight before the feast date. Honouring either their patron saint or second-in-importance saint, you can enjoy music performed by local bands, visit vendor stalls, watch fireworks, and take in the brightly decorated streets and ornately decorated and illuminated churches.
There are some traditional foods you must sample whilst you’re in Malta. Among the numerous pastries, pies, pastas and pizza slices at numerous kiosks around the island, you’ll find the famous pastizzi – filled, hot, mini-pastries. To wash it down, pick up a bottle of Malta’s own soft drink, Kinnie, a bittersweet carbonated drink, which is, admittedly, an acquired taste.