Malta Beach Hotels
Most of the Maltese coastline is rocky, with the cool aqua tones of the Mediterranean contrasting beautifully with the honey-coloured natural limestone; the bedrock of Malta.
Many of the popular tourist resorts such as Sliema, St Julians and Qawra don’t have access to a sandy beach, and instead, bathers swim off rocks or at a water’s edge lido. There are four main locations where hotels are found next to beaches, and they are all in the north of the island.
August 4th, 2010 by Milie | No Comments »
Malta and Gozo are home to some of the best diving opportunities in the Mediterranean. Several travel companies specialize in diving holidays on the islands, and there are a number of diving schools and dive centres all around the islands. Malta has some of the clearest waters in the Mediterranean, and although there aren’t as many species of fish as in The Red Sea, underwater life is abundant.
For decades, there has been a general trend of population movements from developing nations to the developed countries of the world. Historically, developing nations are some of the countries on the continents of Africa, Asia and South/Central America. Since Malta joined the EU in 2004 there has been an increase in the number of such migrants reaching Maltese shores, particularly during the period from 2004 to 2008. These migrants are referred to as “Klandestini” in Maltese, a term that translates as irregular or illegal migrants.
Drive-in movie theaters are venues where you watch a movie whilst sitting in your car, on the hood or on the grass where you’ve parked. Usually they are in a field with a large screen at one end (sometimes an inflatable screen is used) and a projector at the other. The audience listens to the movie either through speakers by each car space, or by tuning into a special FM radio frequency. Popularized in the USA during the 1950’s, they became entrenched in the American culture along with popcorn, baseball and burgers. A Drive-in featured in the 1970’s film Grease, which typified American teen culture in the ‘50s.
Malta is one of only two countries globally where you cannot obtain a divorce; the other country being The Phillippines. Being a strongly Catholic nation, the church plays a part in the lives of many, but slowly things are changing, with many people wanting a separation of church and state.
