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Malta is 27km long and 14.5km wide — small enough to reach any beach in under an hour, but varied enough that where you stay and how you travel makes a real difference to your beach experience. This guide gives...

Malta and gambling go together in two completely different ways depending on who you're asking. For tourists, it's four physical casinos in St Julian's and Qawra where you can sit at a blackjack table for a night. For expats and...

Landing in Malta and not sure what money to bring? Short answer: Euros. Long answer: a bit of context helps, especially if you're wondering whether the old Maltese Lira still works (it doesn't), how ATMs compare to exchange offices, and...

Malta has some of the most traveller-friendly alcohol rules in Europe — low drinking age in malta, easy to buy, relatively cheap, and one iconic local service (the booze wagon) that doesn't really exist anywhere else. This guide covers the...

Malta punches dramatically above its weight on festivals. For an island of 500,000 people, it hosts one of the densest festival calendars in the Mediterranean — free open-air concerts with global superstars, underground techno gatherings on Gozo, internationally acclaimed food...

Two topics travellers constantly ask about but rarely find properly explained: the malta flag and the culture behind it. The flag of malta is unusual — white and red with a small George Cross in the top left corner, a...

For a country smaller than the Isle of Wight, Malta has absurdly deep history. Temples older than the pyramids, Phoenician trading posts, Roman villas, Arab rule that shaped the language still spoken today, medieval knights, Napoleon, 150 years of british...

Malta is a 316 km² island between Sicily and North Africa that packs way more than its size suggests: 7,000 years of history, 300 days of sunshine, wild nightlife, turquoise water, and English as an official language. This complete guide...

Malta is tiny — 27 km long, 14 km wide — but it confuses first-time visitors because everything is close but nothing is where you'd expect. This guide uses the malta map to explain the geography clearly: where the country...

Malta punches way above its weight when it comes to nightlife. For a country you can drive across in an hour, it has a concentrated nightlife scene that rivals Ibiza, Mykonos or Barcelona — but at roughly 40% of the...

Short answer: Malta uses British-style three-pin plugs (Type G), the same as the UK and Ireland. If you're coming from anywhere else in Europe, North America, Asia or Australia, you'll need a travel adapter. This guide covers exactly what malta...

Malta stag do and hens party malta searches have been growing year on year for a reason. Malta has quietly become one of Europe's top stag and hen destinations — easier to reach than Ibiza, cheaper than Barcelona, warmer than...