It was warm and windy today so the sea was quite rough
It was warm and windy today so the sea was quite rough
Lunch in the sunshine, we had vegetable soup, something that is not available in Britain at the moment!
Our last fairly slow day on Gozo. We had five nights in Valletta and five nights in Gozo, perhaps we should have had one more day in Valletta and one less here but it is easy to be wise after the event. It gave us plenty of time today to have a relaxing lunch in the square of Qala sitting outside a scruffy locals bar eating some very nice vegetable soup in the sunshine.
What did we think of Gozo? Everyone we spoke to in Malta said Gozo was a quiet and relaxed place with beautiful countryside and hills. It is not hilly, quiet or particularly beautiful so it fails on all counts but it is a very agreeable place, there are lots of walkers and the one walk we did had plenty of interesting features to explore on the way so it was enjoyable.
Four typical Churches
Because of Gozo's small you are never more than 500m from a house and probably never more than 1000m from a church most of which are huge. The population of the island is 31,000, half that of Shrewsbury, many churches in England are empty, what on earth the people of Gozo will do with these huge empty buildings God only Knows - perhaps he has a plan.
The pictures above show four examples of Gozo churches, they are all very similar as they were all built during the last 250 years, every town has at least two, most seemed to be locked up.
The picture shows Gill admiring some Roman anchors, it seems they lost a few when the ropes or chains snapped, the anchors are made of lead so very heavy but a bit soft.
Tomorrow we cross back to Malta and, if we manage to fathom out the bus routes, will catch a bus to a fortified town called Mdina in the centre of the island where we are staying for four nights.
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