{"id":28,"date":"2020-03-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/\/malta-diaries-mellieha\/"},"modified":"2020-03-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T10:00:00","slug":"malta-diaries-mellieha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Malta Diaries &#8211; Mellieha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qJ-MCvdT2WI\/XidcH_bwIvI\/AAAAAAAADkg\/OO0wps4VVi0Ou_-J-bG3p3d15ePietK5wCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/75233921_505240733536240_5775722078057529344_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qJ-MCvdT2WI\/XidcH_bwIvI\/AAAAAAAADkg\/OO0wps4VVi0Ou_-J-bG3p3d15ePietK5wCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/75233921_505240733536240_5775722078057529344_n.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Nothing makes me miss the Summer more than photographs of blue skies and blue seas. Honestly, writing this post in particular gave me serious holiday blues&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Mellieha is the nearest town to the unusually unique Popeye&#8217;s Village, a Popeye themed attraction complete with Popeye characters running around the place. We did visit, and it was bright and exciting, but it was after we&#8217;d wandered around the surrounding area that we discovered the real beauty of Malta.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-AEtEFIK_TaE\/XidcH6dUyBI\/AAAAAAAADkk\/MmYrhFjefMc53WQcDEeW7DASZFictx2jQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/75369264_446246982745971_8002061922612543488_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-AEtEFIK_TaE\/XidcH6dUyBI\/AAAAAAAADkk\/MmYrhFjefMc53WQcDEeW7DASZFictx2jQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/75369264_446246982745971_8002061922612543488_n.jpg\" \/>&nbsp; <\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--xW6GDj9LZM\/XidcI22umII\/AAAAAAAADks\/HjVBlxYVM0Ewfkc3oSDEVlo3-_JB7HY2ACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/78601586_795181877621795_9031346406987661312_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--xW6GDj9LZM\/XidcI22umII\/AAAAAAAADks\/HjVBlxYVM0Ewfkc3oSDEVlo3-_JB7HY2ACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/78601586_795181877621795_9031346406987661312_n.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">We found it by accident,  and just spent the next hour or so wandering around and taking photos,  barely talking to each other. I&#8217;ve also been abroad to cities, like Florence and Lisbon, so I&#8217;ve never really seen scenes like these, but it was a really beautiful place that isn&#8217;t done justice in photos. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gEHY4cJbduk\/XidcIGgDvRI\/AAAAAAAADko\/UFMD73_6nx03iTZdX5svCVXybscuT55hQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/77162021_2973934252832338_7954327364027023360_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gEHY4cJbduk\/XidcIGgDvRI\/AAAAAAAADko\/UFMD73_6nx03iTZdX5svCVXybscuT55hQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/77162021_2973934252832338_7954327364027023360_n.jpg\" \/>&nbsp; <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Neab5Lmu3iE\/XidcJ8Wj_nI\/AAAAAAAADk0\/aw1lQoqPrZosLCUt6ZuD_zHoU0cBMuI_gCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/79084476_896525990749774_472955802861174784_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Neab5Lmu3iE\/XidcJ8Wj_nI\/AAAAAAAADk0\/aw1lQoqPrZosLCUt6ZuD_zHoU0cBMuI_gCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/79084476_896525990749774_472955802861174784_n.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-p0CMkjreA8A\/XidcJtWJh-I\/AAAAAAAADkw\/H3SMpdLwPk8QDWrxK1prBJMl4RQVPZyFQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/79015391_441495540105396_4272967855034597376_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-p0CMkjreA8A\/XidcJtWJh-I\/AAAAAAAADkw\/H3SMpdLwPk8QDWrxK1prBJMl4RQVPZyFQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/79015391_441495540105396_4272967855034597376_n.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">And that&#8217;s it for the short and sweet Malta Diaries. Next up I&#8217;ll be doing my Berlin Diaries, so keep an eye out for those, but that holiday was a completely different vibe from this one!&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">Overall, the lesson of the holiday seemed  to be that it&#8217;s not always a bad thing to get lost.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span>xx<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,11,9,7,104,40,96,103,101,32,102,100,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beautiful","category-blog","category-blogger","category-blogging","category-cliff","category-holiday","category-malta","category-mellieha","category-ocean","category-photography","category-scenes","category-sea","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katygoodship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}