{"id":6582,"date":"2019-06-09T19:31:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2019-06-09T19:31:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T17:31:59","slug":"gozo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=6582","title":{"rendered":"Gozo &#8211; just a boatride away from Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Maltese Islands<\/strong> actually consist of multiple islands &#8211; <strong>Gozo<\/strong> being one of them. From Valletta, it takes quite some time to get there by public transport &#8211; the bus ride to the harbour of <strong>\u010airkewwa<\/strong> takes one and a half hours, the ferry then goes to Gozo every 45 minutes with another bus waiting at the Gozo harbour to take you further to the desired destination. Prepare for full busses and windy roads. So unfortunately, there is only so much that can be seen on a day trip. The<strong> \u0120gantija <\/strong>megalithic temples are part of the Unesco World Heritage sites and the <strong>Cittadella of Victoria<\/strong> is also worth a visit. It is also possible to do boat rides to the <strong>Blue Lagoon<\/strong> or to visit the <strong>Azur Window<\/strong> (the GOT filming site that crashed into the sea).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6583\" data-link=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/1904_malta_gozo_01\/\" class=\"wp-image-6583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_01.jpg 500w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_01-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_01-120x180.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Maltese flag at the Cittadella<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6584\" data-link=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/1904_malta_gozo_02\/\" class=\"wp-image-6584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_02.jpg 750w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_02-270x180.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption>view from the Cittadella<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6585\" data-link=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/1904_malta_gozo_03\/\" class=\"wp-image-6585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_03-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_03-120x180.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>fields<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6586\" data-link=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/1904_malta_gozo_04\/\" class=\"wp-image-6586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_04.jpg 500w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_04-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_04-120x180.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Cittadella<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6587\" data-link=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/1904_malta_gozo_05\/\" class=\"wp-image-6587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_05.jpg 500w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_05-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_05-120x180.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>on the ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">April 16th, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maltese Islands actually consist of multiple islands &#8211; Gozo being one of them. From Valletta, it takes quite some time to get there by public transport &#8211; the bus ride to the harbour of \u010airkewwa takes one and a half hours, the ferry then goes to Gozo every 45 minutes with another bus waiting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,97,1382,247,470,1387,509,741,778,932,975,1243,1262,1291],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1904_malta_gozo_00.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}