Author: Hot Malta

# In pictures: Australian soldiers in Malta during WWI – a forgotten chapter of island hospitality The black-and-white photographs look almost Mediterranean in their light: khaki-clad young men lounging on the bastions of Valletta, cricket bats resting against limestone walls, while the Grand Harbour glitters behind them. Yet these are not Maltese soldiers – they…

While you sleep: debunking the myths about Malta’s bats ——————————————————- By the time the last ferry from Gozo slips into Ċirkewwa and the Comino day-trippers have rinsed the salt from their hair, another shift clocks in. Above the honey-coloured bastions of Mdina, below the festa lights of Birkirkara, and even along the glass-and-steel skyline of…