Good morning
and another beautiful day for you I hope.
I am still on Malta
and today I'm going to leave the mainland
of Malta and go to the second
largest island of the Maltese chain,
Gozo.
So let's get on the bike,
find a ferry,
and go see Gozo Island,
see what that's like. Come on.
Welcome to a ferry. I'm still Malta but I
am leaving the mainland of Malta to go
to the second biggest island in this
little chain
called Gozo which apparently has some
nice beaches very much more relaxed and
quieter than than Malta which is fairly
chilled already. So I was quite lucky I
drove here, stopped and had some
drink on the
way, and just came in time for loading
time. So being on a motorbike I skipped the
cars, which are still loading, rode
straight to the front, ready for a fast
exit on the other side, now I can chill
out and look at this,
what a glorious day it
is so sunny. Gonna have to watch my
head. I do have my cap and sunscreen
which I am liberally coated with. It's a big
boat, it's a "Roll On Roll Off" so you can
put cars
and motorbikes on it, and there's seating
and you can obviously come as a
passenger as well.
Let's have a quick tour of the boat before
we set off and explore Gozo.
And on Gozo! At the port just down there
rolled off, it seemed like a 20 minute - 25
minute journey? Really nice beautiful day
for it so smooth. Rolled off the bike as
soon as you get on there's this huge
church up on the hill and you can see
another church over there and you can't
see anybody apart from the people coming
off the boat....
and an airplane.
Doesn't seem to be anybody here.
Maybe this, instead of being the Silent
City, should be the silent island. Anyway
let's explore.
Ooh, and first stop
in the capital Rabat,
or Victoria is the citadel,
which is the big
castle / fort on the hill overlooking
the whole of the island.
Driven right up to the
top and parked in the cathedral carpark
space. It seems okay. Now let's go in and
have a look around, see what it's like.
I've got a beautiful day, it is so so
clear and blue, and hot. Let's see if we
can find our way in.
I think this is the way in.
And there's the church. So there's the
Cathedral, the ramparts, there's a museum,
there's an old prison, couple of shops,
rambling streets to wonder and of course
the view from the ramparts.
So that is the
Citadel in the capital,
and this is the plaza of the Citadel.
Next stop? Hmm we shall see.
Now I think my next stop is a beach with a
cold drink, oh it is toasty hot today! Not
complaining,
I like the dry weather for filming it's
really great. Look at the size of these walls!
Well I know I promised you were going to
a beach next and that wasn't
exactly a beach it's called the blue, blue
hole. Blue Hole it's called. But it's a
very scenic very beautiful and I got a
drink. Two euros for a small drink but
hey. And they sell great ice creams too.
I resisted on the ice cream because I'm
now gonna try and get us to a beach and
hopefully get back on a better road than
that one I took.
Okay the camera wants to
show you a bit more of the view, so
there we go, enjoy
the view look how high the sun is.
It's like five o'clock in the afternoon
Actually it's half past five
and look at that. Quite
a few crowds of people still coming down
here too.
Anyway next stop I am going to attempt
to take you to a beach.
And on our way down to another beach.
It's quite a steep hill. Parked
at the top there.
We're about, mmmm we're half way down,
sun is slowly
going behind that cliff over there. I
hope I get down there while it's still
sunny. I can't really see what the
beach is like,
but I'm sure the drone will give us a
drone eye view
before we go the rest of the way down.
Hope you're enjoying the day,
it's been great.
I should have checked what time the last
boat left to go back to the mainland.
I think they go quite late because
the sun sets late here and I would like to
stay for sunset and there's still so much
to see here. I mean I've seen this
amazing huge cathedral on a hill that I
haven't even been to yet I would like to
go there have a quick look.
Anyway let's hurry up, let's get that drone in the air.