Scanning a map of Europe, you could miss Malta entirely. It's a dot in the Mediterranean just below Sicily. Don't let that fool you — there's enough packed onto this rock that you'll leave feeling you needed another week.
People ask me whether it's like Italy. Sort of. Like North Africa? A little. Almost everyone in history took the island at some point — Romans, the Knights of St. John, the French, the British — and every one of them left something behind. You'll see old red British phone boxes against ancient limestone walls, while people speak a language that sounds Arabic but is written in Latin script.
