{"id":9969,"date":"2022-10-06T18:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=9969"},"modified":"2022-10-06T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:03:41","slug":"malta-september-2022-gozo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=9969","title":{"rendered":"Malta September 2022 &#8211; Gozo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A trip to Malta should not miss a ferry ride to the little island of Gozo with its lovely variety of beaches, coastal towns and of course , its main town Victoria and the Citadel.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the ferry to Gozo from Cirkewwa at the tip of Malta and this is a short 20min free trip which doesn&#8217;t need any bookings. The ferry ride back to Malta does cost and need a ticket but you now also have the option of the 45min fast ferry to Valletta which may save you taxi fares and only costs 7.50 Euro.<\/p>\n<p>The coastal waters of the Mediterranean at this time of year are a lovely 25degC &#8211; great for swimming, especially at Ramla which has a sandy beach &#8211; IF there are no stinging jellyfish and IF you avid stepping on the black sea urchins in the rock beaches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=fd84e3&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC039050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buttresses in an alley way in The Citadel.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably these were designed to help withstand the regions earthquakes &#8211; a major one hit eastern Sicily in 1693 demolishing towns such as Ragusa and sending a tsunami to Malta as well as causing considerable building damage in Malta.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=1200&amp;tok=e30b53&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC039070.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another lane way in the Citadel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=53b552&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC038870.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The coastal town of Marsalforn.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=2fbcac&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC038890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The coastal town of Marsalforn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=b0431d&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FGD2105790.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bar in Marsalforn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=d4d095&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FGD2105900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The owner of the salt pans near Marsalforn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=1200&amp;tok=1b9406&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC039140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the remote rock beach cove &#8211; Dwejra Bay near the Inland Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to Malta should not miss a ferry ride to the little island of Gozo with its lovely variety of beaches, coastal towns and of course , its main town Victoria and the Citadel. You can catch the ferry to Gozo from Cirkewwa at the tip of Malta and this is a short 20min [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[653,649,14,56,70],"class_list":["post-9969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-photography","tag-gozo","tag-malta","tag-olympus","tag-sony","tag-tilt-shift"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9972,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions\/9972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}