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Malta is small but easy to get wrong. Crowds, heat and tourist traps. Here are 10 rules from someone who learned them the hard way.
Malta is beautiful and easy to visit — but only if you know what to avoid. Here are 10 rules that separate a tourist from an informed traveller.
At noon Valletta is hell: crowds, heat, queues. At 8am you have the city to yourself. Iconic photos without crowds? Morning. Coffee in peace? Morning. Co-Cathedral without a queue? Morning.
The weekly Tallinja pass (€21) is excellent value. But treat the timetable as "indicative." A bus can arrive 20 minutes late or drive through your stop without stopping. Always have a Plan B (Bolt).
If someone is standing in front of a restaurant waving a menu at you — keep walking. Always. This signals average quality and inflated prices. The best places never need to hustle for customers.
Between noon and 3pm, hide in a museum, cafe, or take the ferry. Maltese July sun is not a joke. SPF50 is non-negotiable.
A day trip to Gozo is a mistake. Stay one night. The atmosphere after the last ferries carry the day-trippers back to Malta is impossible to describe.
Restaurants near the Co-Cathedral, Upper Barrakka, on Republic Street — touristy, expensive, average. Five minutes off the main routes and you will find the same food for half the price.
British sockets (type G). Without an adapter — nothing charges. Water shoes — rocky shores and sea urchins are unforgiving.
In restaurants always ask for "still local water" — Maltese filtered tap water served in a carafe. Free or a few cents. You avoid an imported bottle at €3.
The last regular ferry returns around 11pm (winter) or later (summer). But in peak season the car queue can take 1–2 hours. As a foot passenger you always board without waiting.
"Grazzi" (thank you), "Bongu" (good morning), "Mela" (well then / so / the universal filler word). This produces a smile from every local. Maltese people are proud of their language — the only Semitic-Arabic language written in the Latin alphabet in the EU.
Highlights from Robert Maklowicz's travels
Maklowicz's tip: rest at Upper Barrakka
“Rozsądny zwiedzający powinien co jakiś czas przycupnąć, a do tego przycupnięcia wybierać miejsca, w których siedząc również można zwiedzać.”
The essential pastizzi experience
“Pastizzi to najprostsze i najbardziej demokratyczne danie na Malcie — za pięćdziesiąt centów jesteś w raju.”
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