A few pictures from Malta

Here is a VERY small number of photos from Malta. Nearly all of them are completely unrelated to any of the others. I only pulled a few from one of the SD cards, and some of the photos are on my Dad's computer since one camera uses Memory Stick (bleh) and its small so it had to be continually emptied.

A quick primer -- the island has been captured and held by nearly every major power ever. There are fortresses everywhere due to the strategic location in the middle of the Mediterranean shipping lanes and having massive and deep harbours throughout the entirety of the island. The important ones are the defence of the island from the Ottoman Turks at the height of their empire, Napoleon taking the island during his brief reign, and the Brits taking the island and then barely holding off the Nazis during WW II (being bombed to hell in the process - to the point of the entire island being awarded the George Cross).

Photos

I'll post a video of the fireworks if ppl are interested whenever I find the right SD card.


The last one wasn't really from an area I think that I was supposed to be able to get into. The other passage that I didn't post could have been made by the Turks trying to blowup the walls of the fortress during the Great Siege (since thats how you do it -- tunnel underneath and blowout the foundation). Basically you had to walk down and scramble around the outside of Fort St. Elmo to get where the passages are.