WEEKEND IN MALTA !

For those who never visited Malta, it is a little island inside an archipelago located in the Mediterranean Sea, approximately 60 miles South of Italy. I thought that they were speaking Italian but nope, they speak Maltese (I think that how you say it! it's a mix of English, Italian and Arabic! to me it sounds like that!)
I've been there for 3 days, first landed in Valletta, beautiful ancient city, full of culture and naval history, various countries has ruled the Islands, French, British, Spanish, Romans etc... The thing is, they all left an incredible Something that makes Malta unique!
Valletta reminded me of those ancient cities we can see in movies like Gladiator or Game of Thrones, with all those rocks and big walls all around to protect the city, then there is the harbors, three different harbors, with each a particular story. Really I've been impressed by the culture around Valletta, and I think you can be impressed too, I admit that there's not much to see, to me... being in Malta for three days was far enough to discover everything there is to discover, I saw Malta, and Gozo Island which is absolutely gorgeous!

So day2, I took the ferry and arrived in Gozo Island, the second largest Island of the archipelago, lucky me, the weather was fantastic, sunny and warm like you can wish for whilst traveling.
In Gozo, I visited the Megalithic Temples, which are older than the Pyramids of Egypt can you imagine that???
Well I couldn't but I've seen the temples, the walls were inlaid with seashells and a special rock, apparently, the rocks were imported and carried with round rocks and tree trunk. The view was quite special as well, over the entire island, and one of the 365 Churchs there is in Malta archipelago, there is one Church for each day of the year on islands that are barely bigger than Boston!
After that, I went tasted local food and liquor, then went to the Sea Shells restaurant for lunch, that was really good! and it was next to the sea, you know how much I love the sea, I couldn't resist and soak my feet in the sea!
Then for the afternoon activities, I went on a boat to discover the gorgeous Azure Window, water like you've never seen, blue like Azure stones.

Day 3 was the visit of  Mdina city, unfortunately the sun was hiding behind clouds for my last day in Malta, This place is also known as the Silent City (I couldn't help to think of The mortal instruments books with the Silent Brothers...okay okay ending my book nerdy thing right now promise!!) so Mdina is..for most of the city, residential, you can find a few shops but Nothing more, you have only two entrance and no car is allowed but the residential ones.
Practically no one on the Streets, you are completely alone in the city of silence! very windy though and still a lot of history and culture about why the city is surrounded by big walls.
I ended up my weekend in Malta by eating my lunch in the Point de Vue restaurant! really good food and a lookout that is going to make you want to stay inside the restaurant all day long!

There it is, the end of my post about Malta, I really enjoyed my stay there, for the Hotels I stayed in the DOLMEN (great view, great staff, and amazing food! I think there's Nothing else to say, I loved my stay and highly recommend that Hotel) and visited the TOPAZE (personally I don't like the Topaz but it is only my opinion, the view isn't pretty, and the hotel seemed abandoned).

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MALTA?

Hope you like it, please leave a comment below if you feel like it, I would love to know what you think about Malta or my post or both!!

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MELBOURNE: THE CITY TO SEE!!!

Hello guys,

I had such a busy month, I had not a single minute just to sit down and write in here!

Fortunately, that awful month is about to end. And just when I needed it, my traveling days are about to start again, next week I'll be flying out to Malta, so stay around to read all about it!
for now, I have nothing planned until well next week but then until July where I'll take the Eurostar to London with dear friends of mine, but it doesn't mean that I won't take off somewhere else in the meantime! "A real adventure soul does not have to plan and push for the next adventure, because it comes upon it itself" I don't quite remember where I've read that, I just wrote it down so I could write it in here hahah.

Enough talk about me, I kind of told you in my previous post "WHERE TO GO IN SYDNEY" that I would do one on What to do in Melbourne so this is it!

Melbourne is an amazing city, full of stuff to do, things to see, friends to make... When I was there at first I felt bad, it was a great city, too big for a small girl like me, still, I put my fears on hold and went exploring that famous place, and discovered that there was a lot to see!
Fashion, Sport, Food, drinks and parties...(I won't write them all) enough to say that you have a lot to do in here not to get bored or feeling alone, and yet I haven't done everything!

first of all, if you're a backpacker like I was, go eat there!

LENTIL AS ANYTHING

Go to one of their restaurants for breakfast, lunch or dinner at Abbotsford convent and in St Kilda, choose what you’d like to eat thanks to their buffet and enjoy a delicious meal, talk to people and listen to some music in a warm community space. See how you feel about your meal then decide how much you want or can pay, and put your money and cute little boxes in the restaurant.
At the Lentils they value trust, generosity, and respect, they don't care how much money you have, or if you don't have any money at all? you go there to share with others, and trust me when you feel alone, going there is the best way of making friends and to say goodbye to your blues. If you can't pay them with any money, they are more than happy to welcome you to help them at the Lentil.

EXPLORE THE ART CITY

When you visit Melbourne the first thing you learn about it is that it is one of the world's great street art capitals, you can see paintings everywhere in the city.Here are a few street art locations:

• Hosier and Rutledge Lane, opposite Federation Square
• Caledonian Lane, off Little Bourke Street
• Union Lane, off Bourke Street Mall
• Rear of 280 Queen Street in Finlay Avenue
• 21 Degraves Street
• Cnr Flinders Lane and Cocker Alley 
• 122 Palmerston Street, Carlton
• Centre Place, between Collins Street and Flinders Lane

ST KILDA

( Sorry mates don't have many photos of St Kilda)

Just because St Kilda is a place of itself, and what an incredible place, Kitesurf spot, other sports spot and most of all, you can observe the penguin on the beach. Close to the city St Kilda, it's also restaurants, cafe, music... a place full of life! You can't go to Melbourne and not go to St Kilda Suburb, it was really one of my favorites!

I did not stay long, but there's plenty of things to do that I didn't, like go on a sky adventure in a Hot Air Balloon with "Global Ballooning Australia", the "Royal botanic garden" I did the one in Sydney though, the Luna Park still did the one in Sydney, and my favourite advice... I know I repeat myself but GET LOST!!! explore the City, on foot, on bikes, by tram...forget your car, your van, it's impossible to park and it's expensive, don't even think of not paying, you'll have a fine before leaving your car.

So these are my advise if you go to Melbourne, one thing you can be absolutely certain of, is that you'll make friends in the blink of an eye, you met someone and that someone tells you to come over tonight they have a party with many friends and BAM ! you have some more friends..of course I am not telling you to just follow any stranger that tells you to come alone over its place but trusting people from time to time is a good thing. Not everyone is Dangerous in this world, most of the people are amazing! I still have a few friends in Australia some I haven't seen in Four years and still we speak to each other, dreaming about the day we'll finally see (because yes I have not seen everybody last year) but these are the kind of friends you can make, people you won't see for a long time and yet still be close over the years.

What do you think about what I said, do you have long distance close friends too?

Hope you enjoyed the post, promise I'll try not to wait a month between post anymore, even in busy times! see you next time for my post about Malta!

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