Malta

[Tooting Gull]

Any recommendations/top sightseeing tips for a couple of days there? Am going this week, never been before - going to be based in Portomaso, but looking to try and get to Valletta for at least a day and maybe over to one of the other islands on a ferry.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Any recommendations/top sightseeing tips for a couple of days there? Am going this week, never been before - going to be based in Portomaso, but looking to try and get to Valletta for at least a day and maybe over to one of the other islands on a ferry.

As an NSC-accredited poster, you MUST pay tribute here:

Ollie's Last Pub

 

[Binney on acid]

Valetta is stupendous. Generally speaking, Malta is crap.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

the gut (straight street )
was a crack in the 70's

dont spose its there anymore though

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Valetta is stupendous. Generally speaking, Malta is crap.

Yup. Dusty and dreary. In Winter it's UNSPEAKABLY crap, full of Brit pensioner equivalent of STHs, whingeing mercilessly about how they're paying four quid a night for their bread and gruel and Alf down at the hovel down the road is only paying three pound fifty.

The race track's a hoot tho. It's that trotting thing where there's a bloke in a flimsy chariot in goggles about a foot away from the horse's exhaust pipe as it were, and they get disqualified for TRYING. Uncle Spielberg could make a fortune with his tips there...

 

[smudge]

I can confirm it's shite in winter. Place to visit in Valetta is a pub now known locally as Ollie's last Stand. It's where Oliver Reed kicked the bucket while having a few pints with sailors from HMS Campbelltown. Visiting matelots like to go in there & raise a glass or 3 to the old lush.
The gut is still there but no bars any more. bit like a museum.

St Julians has all the night life; this time of year it's mostly locals, (gorgeous birds but very catholic if you get my drift) & OAPS.

A good laugh is getting all the old girls having a knees up in the karaoke.......well it was the last time I was there!

Grand Harbour is very picturesque mind; loads of history & they f***ing love Brits....which makes a pleasant change!

 

[smudge]

Re: Re: Malta

As an NSC-accredited poster, you MUST pay tribute here:

Ollie's Last Pub

I really should start reading complete threads before posting!

 

[Yorkie]

the gut (straight street )
was a crack in the 70's

dont spose its there anymore though

HMS St Angelo.

 

[magoo]

i was a kid when i went there but i remember the beach (st pauls?) being really nice. oh and you could get these cheese pasties, think they were called cheese cakes, on the street and they were NICE!

 

[Tooting Gull]

Re: Re: Malta

As an NSC-accredited poster, you MUST pay tribute here:

Ollie's Last Pub

That surpasses anything I was hoping for on this thread.

Much obliged, it will be done.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Re: Re: Re: Malta

That surpasses anything I was hoping for on this thread.

Much obliged, it will be done.

No worries, mate. Enjoy!

Here's a thread I did when I was trapped in Malta in December 2003 and asking NSC for stuff to do. Might give you a few more ideas

Malta - Things To Do

 

[rospants]

how do you make a maltese cross??













poke him in the eye

(i'll get my coat)

 

[Tubby Mondays]

It is the law that you have to bring back wallets and purses in a shade of light tan for everyone you have ever met when you go to Malta, whether you have actually seen them use a wallet in their lives or not.

 

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my advice would be don't bother. Malta is a dump.

 

[Beartown Seagull]

Gozo

We stayed in Gozo for a week - much nicer than Malta. Very laid back with some quaint villages, beaches, etc. Even better if you dive as it has some great sites. Can get to Gozo by ferry or helicopter - definately recommended.

 

[Parson Henry]

Malta = Boring

They also do fake thick wolly jumpers

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

It's a bit military there

 

[cardboard]

The blue lagoon just off gozo is stunning

 

[Shirty]

Re: Gozo

We stayed in Gozo for a week - much nicer than Malta. Very laid back with some quaint villages, beaches, etc. Even better if you dive as it has some great sites. Can get to Gozo by ferry or helicopter - definately recommended.

Correct .. and only one set of traffic lights on the entire island.

 

[crodonilson]

Malta is maginificent if you're over the age of 70.