Photos 2017: Malta

We spent a week on tour with Miriam’s choir, the Phoenix Singers.

View across a harbour towards a built-up headland

View from Valletta across the harbour towards Senglea, one of the “Three Cities”

A Nissen hut turned tourist shop

An enforced coach stop at some tourist shops turned into a photographic treat: the site was a former air base, with buildings to match

A wide flight of stone steps

Steps at the entrance to the fortress city of Valletta

Part of the choir singing in a historic church

An impromptu concert by the Phoenix Singers at a historic church in Mosta

The head of a statue of Mary with the church frontage behind

Statue of the Virgin Mary outside the historic church in Mosta

A statue overlooking the choir

Phoenix Singers concert in Mdina Cathedral

Side view of the choir

Phoenix Singers concert in a church on the island of Gozo

Flowers on a balcony

A balcony overlooking the harbour at the fishing port of Marsaxlokk

Traditional church building behind fishing boats

Church behind the harbour at Marsaxlokk

Church behind the harbour at Marsaxlokk

View across the harbour at Marsaxlokk

A red fort on a hilltop

St Agatha’s Tower: one of numerous forts around the coast of this much fought over territory

Two people sitting at the end of a pier

Enjoying the scenery at Little Arnier, on the north coast looking across to Comino island

A green lizard climbing a wall

This lizard slowly climbed the wall, over the top and down the other side

St Mary's Tower on Comino island

St Mary’s Tower on Comino island

The crowds pack around the Blue Lagoon on Comino island

The crowds pack around the Blue Lagoon on Comino island

A deserted fort

Santa Marija Battery: this side of Comino island was completely deserted (except for me)