Portugal – First impressions

Portugal on my mind..

Dramatic

It's been quite some time since I could participate in a photo challenge. But today I decided to do that without having to break the continuity of one of my travelogues as I have just finished one and haven't started the next one yet. Drama as the thing without which life would be so excruciatingly...

Malta – Hagar Qim, Mosta and a Dosa!

Now that I had covered most of the places far and near that I wanted to see, I had one full day to explore. So I decided to go to the prehistoric temples similar to the ones on the Gozo island. They were almost across the island from Valletta. It took quite some time to...

Malta – Adventure with Avengers

While in Malta or may be even before reaching there, I'd had the thought that I would go watch the last Avengers movie - Endgame in Malta. So after the walking tour of Mdina and exploring a bit of Rbat, I decided to do that. I'd already checked the location of the cinemas where the...

Malta – Mdina

After having spent a good part of the morning in the Co-Cathedral and having a good lunch, I moved on towards my next destination - the old capital of Malta - Mdina. I reached earlier than the scheduled time, so just roamed around a bit but not too far. It was not full of tourists...

Malta – The glory of the Knights

The two previous days had gone very well. I was relaxed on the third day as I'd already made the longer journey on the previous day - the one to Gozo. I got up without any hurry, had some breakfast and then leisurely went to Valletta. The aim was to see the cathedral of the...

Malta – Gozo

Maltese Archipelago For the second day of being in Malta (country), I had planned to go to the island of Gozo. A colleague/friend of mine had told me that he found Gozo to be much more nicer than Malta (Malta is both the name of the country and the biggest island of the Maltese archipelago)....

Malta – First Impressions and Some Fireworks

The good thing about morning flights for short duration trips is that you then have the whole day to explore the destination. But then there’s this challenge of reaching the airport. That's where a friend of mine C, has twice come to my rescue. She lives in a suburb that's like 20 minutes away from...

Malta – How did I go there of all the places?

I sometimes wonder if we end up being somewhere because the traditional gods planned it thus or because the new gods (of the internet) make it so! Let me tell my story and you can decide for yourself what to believe in. Crossing the mountains.. One fine day in February, just a week after I'd...