Thought we’d finish off the year with a little swim down by ‘St Peters Pool’. It’s a beautiful little coastal cove near the fishing port of Marsaxlokk and on a calm day, it must be absolute bliss. However, waves were crashing in dramatically today, ensuring that getting in the water would have been a one-way… Read more

Ahhhh… a full on cragging day today, with sun on skin, pumped forearms, sore, chalky fingers and happy hearts. Wied Babu is the main climbing area on Malta, with a whole range of amenable routes. Having arrived at the gorge, we discovered that all of the ‘easier’ routes on the slabs were in the shade and… Read more

The Blue Grotto is a justifiably famous attraction in Malta, and happens to be very close to where were are staying as well as near the main climbing areas. Rather than pay for a bumpy boat ride to see it with the normal folk, we chose to get the spectacular ariel view, by climbing the… Read more

Said our farewells to Gozo this morning and took the ferry back to Malta.   We timed things well again (by chance), and we soon on board and heading back past Comino.   We must have been super lucky on the way over here as there were huge ques on the Malta side, waiting to… Read more

Do you follow the Sat Nav, or your gut feeling? When faced with an impossibly steep dirt track that seemed to be heading down a very narrow lane with the possibility of a safe return in no way guaranteed, I decided to go with my instincts and use the common sense approach this morning –… Read more

We managed to do a bit of everything today. Relaxing, climbing, snorkelling and sightseeing. After navigating past a few more amazing churches, (and a few false trails and dead ends), we arrived at this gorge – the cradle of climbing on Gozo. (Note the other random amazing place of worship in the field above!). The… Read more