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Day 4 - Mdina

20th November 2021

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Game of Thrones & Citadel

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The day's plan to catch the bus and head to Mdina the former capital of Malta.


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Before leaving Valletta, a breakfast crespelle at Caffe Cordina...

Breakfast



 
View coming down the stairs at the hotel...

Stairs view




It's easy to see why Mdina was used as a filming location for King's Landing in the first series of Game of Thrones...


Mdina Gate 1
 

      

Me...


Paul Mdina
 

  

City Gate...
 

Mdina Gate 2
 


Miche and a giant Maltese Cross outside the Natural History Museum...


Maltese Cross

 


Me at the other end of the giant Maltese Cross outside the Natural History Museum...

Paul Natural History Museum




Just one of the beautiful and narrow streets...

Streets 1



St Paul's Cathedral...

St Paul's



More marble tombstones inside...


St Paul's 2



and a painted ceiling...

St Paul's 3


Not the fiercest looking of lions in the adjacent museum...

Lion




More of those evocative streets...

Streets 2



Timeless...

Streets 3



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Fontanella Tea Garden... after a long queue to get a table up on the battlements with views over the island...

Cafe



View of the Rotunda from the cafe...

Rotunda




Fennel beer from the Lord Chambray brewery on Gozo...

Cafe 2



Feathered guests...

Sparrows



More streets...

Streets 4



Miche at the gate...

Mdina Gate 2



In a rare quiet spell...

Mdina Gate 3


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Days 1 & 2 - London to Valletta Day 3 - Valletta Day 4 - Mdina
Day 5 - Blue Grotto & Marsaxlokk Day 6 - Hypogeum & Tarxien Temples Day 7 - Harbour & Valletta
Day 8 - Gozo Day 9 - to Home