Welcome to my Malta travel budget post. I don’t generally talk about money here. I’m British, it’s not done. Besides, the usual subject is “how to make money from travelling and/or blogging!” I don’t know that. I have a 9-5 (well, two days a week it’s 8:30-4:30 which is never confusing to my body clock… More How to go to Malta with less than £200: my Malta travel budget

I didn’t do much research before going off to Malta. It came up pretty suddenly – I only booked the flights about ten days before I went and there was quite a lot going on in early January so I didn’t do a lot of research which meant that a few things caught me by… More Things that surprised me about Malta

I didn’t know a lot about Malta before I went there. I didn’t even know what town my hostel was in – I now know it’s officially Marsa but it seems to be at the crossroads of every town I’ve ever heard of and a few I haven’t. Everyone at work knows Malta pretty well… More Valletta: a day in the fortified city

The first thing I did in Malta was go to Gozo. That’s what had been recommended to me most in the couple of weeks – well, ten days – between booking and flying, so that was my first stop. It was hot when I reached my local bus stop, which was made out of glass… More Hopping around Gozo

Airlines have reputations and in Europe, the airline with the single worst reputation is Ryanair. If you’re fortunate enough to have never encountered Ryanair, it’s a low-cost low-frills airline of the lowest kind. To quote my boss’s disgruntled mum (to be fair, she’s disgruntled about everything and that’s putting it very politely), “we didn’t even get… More I flew on Ryanair for the first time!