explain what happened in Gozo.
we got up early today, as planned, and we wanted to take the bus at 10:17. but we were too early at the bus stop. so we went to mc donalds for a coffee. and we just missed the bus. so we had the time to enjoy our morning coffee at the seaside in wonderful sunshine. and we got the next bus easily :)
after 56 minutes of travelling with the maltese public transport we got to the ferry. the man there was wawing that we should hurry up because the ferry is leaving now. it only took 25 minutes to reach gozo (about 6 km), and we saw the mini island Comino too, between the two bigger ones.
first we thought, we could explore the island by ourselves, but a very diplomatic taxidriver offered a 5 euro transport to the capital, Victoria. as we arrived there, he had another special offer: he is going to show us the whole island, for 15 euros. we were deliberating a bit, and decided to accept his offer. so we had our own a hop on hop off taxi.
Joe, the taxi driver was an excellent guide. we learned that gozo is about 70 squarekilometers large and there are about 30.000 people living on it. there are 13 villages, one of them is the capital, in the middle of the island. so it wherever you go, you´ll pass by Victoria.
we saw a temple from 3000 b.c, the Calypso-cave, a fishing village, Joe´s birth village (with its 300 people living there the smallaes village on the island), salt pans, the azure window, the church where the pope was once, an aquaduct and of course we visited Victoria. as we arrived at the end of our tour in Victoria we had a delicious lunch in the first pub we found (yes, we were both hungry). then we tried to walk up to the citadelle, but after 1.5 hours of trying and getting lost over and over again we gave up.
on the ferry back to Malta we could see an admiring sunset. i really enjoyed it. Luc fell asleep on the bus, so i could organize everything i saw today in my head. now i have to make a selection of the pictures, because i have exactly 200 of them :)
we got up early today, as planned, and we wanted to take the bus at 10:17. but we were too early at the bus stop. so we went to mc donalds for a coffee. and we just missed the bus. so we had the time to enjoy our morning coffee at the seaside in wonderful sunshine. and we got the next bus easily :)
after 56 minutes of travelling with the maltese public transport we got to the ferry. the man there was wawing that we should hurry up because the ferry is leaving now. it only took 25 minutes to reach gozo (about 6 km), and we saw the mini island Comino too, between the two bigger ones.
first we thought, we could explore the island by ourselves, but a very diplomatic taxidriver offered a 5 euro transport to the capital, Victoria. as we arrived there, he had another special offer: he is going to show us the whole island, for 15 euros. we were deliberating a bit, and decided to accept his offer. so we had our own a hop on hop off taxi.
Joe, the taxi driver was an excellent guide. we learned that gozo is about 70 squarekilometers large and there are about 30.000 people living on it. there are 13 villages, one of them is the capital, in the middle of the island. so it wherever you go, you´ll pass by Victoria.
we saw a temple from 3000 b.c, the Calypso-cave, a fishing village, Joe´s birth village (with its 300 people living there the smallaes village on the island), salt pans, the azure window, the church where the pope was once, an aquaduct and of course we visited Victoria. as we arrived at the end of our tour in Victoria we had a delicious lunch in the first pub we found (yes, we were both hungry). then we tried to walk up to the citadelle, but after 1.5 hours of trying and getting lost over and over again we gave up.
on the ferry back to Malta we could see an admiring sunset. i really enjoyed it. Luc fell asleep on the bus, so i could organize everything i saw today in my head. now i have to make a selection of the pictures, because i have exactly 200 of them :)
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| morning coffee. for everything else there´s mastercard. |
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| Gozo - Comino |
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| other ferry |
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| arriving in Gozo |
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| if you didn´t reduce your speed... |
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| palm trees :) |
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| Ggantija megalitic temples, UNESCO World Heritage |
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| amazing red sand. there´s a wall one meter below the sea level, to stop pirates. Sicily is in that direction. Joe told us, that you can see sometimes the lights of it. |
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| Calypso cave, unfortunately closed, because it´s dangerous now |
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| the same as in Rio. in miniature |
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| fishing village, Marsalforn. marsa means harbour in maltese |
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| Basilica Ta´Pinu. the stations of the Cross are starting here |
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| Azure window. i took hundreds of pictures, it was amazing. there is the Fungus rock too, the nights discoverd a healing plant there, and guarded the rock therefore |
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| narrow street in Victoria |
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| Victoria under construction. i have to come back here |
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| nearly too miraculous... |
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| we got lost in Victoria. he showed us the way back :) |
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| amazing view. islands are amazing. you always have the sea around you. |
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