17. Malta

Leaving Palermo, we stopped in Catania, which was a bit of a bust for us, with dirty streets, grafitti-laden buildings, and old banged up cars that looked like they hadn't been moved from their parking spots for a month.

However, an uber, a bus, a ferry and a taxi ride later, we were happily situated on the island of Malta in the town of Valletta. Malta is an archipelago with 3 inhabited islands. We stayed on the largest, Malta, and visited the other 2, Gozo & Camino.

Gozo was not my cup of tea, but Craig wanted to see the Citadella there. He's much more of a history/anthropology buff than me - I'm starting to get bleary-eyed at the thought of viewing yet another fortress with statues and names of historical figures, and dates and stories of battles and conquests that represent a country's history, all of which I retain for about 5 seconds before viewing the next statue. When do we get to have fun?

Turns out we got to have fun at the Blue Lagoon at Camino island. Despite being completely overrun by tourists, we found ourselves a spot to hang out on the rocks overlooking the lagoon, and enjoyed a splash in the water. I took a swim across the lagoon to the cave on Comminotto Island, where my fellow adventurers and I slipped off of the algae-topped rocks beneath us as we got knocked around by waves crashing through the cave. Now that was fun!Meer informatie