I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 718. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

walled cities, megalithic temples, fishing villages, the Knights of St. John, and the catacombs of St. Paul, as we go to the

island nation of Malta.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about Malta.

I'd like to welcome to the show Michelle and Nicky from cheeky passports.com who've come to talk to us

about the island nation of Malta. Michelle and Nicky, welcome to the show.

Good afternoon, good that I know.

Good morning, Chris.

Thank you for having us on your podcast.

Well, and what is your connection with Malta?

Well, Chris, we are born and bred in Malta we are native of

this tiny island here we travel a lot but somehow we keep returning back home it. It has that little connection which keeps taking

us back to home.

We like living here.

And if we had to put it on a map, if people don't know where we're talking about, we're just a little south of Italy and just a little north of Africa.

That's correct, Chris. We're bang in the middle of the Mediterranean.

In fact, the best way to connect to the island is by plane, by air.

There's an international airport which serves a lot of countries and that is probably the best connection although there is a ferry to Sicily which

takes about two hours it's not a long ferry so that's the best way to connect.

Well and why should someone go to Malta? The island is small and that

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