When I told my family and friends that I was off to Malta for a few days in March with VisitMalta, some looked at me quizzically. “It’s not going to be very warm,” one said. “You won’t have the weather for the beach,” another warned. “What are you going to do there?” asked my Mum, who’s learnt by now that there’s only so long you can pull me round churches and squares before I start to glaze over.
Cut to e-biking across the Dingli Cliffs, on the island’s western coast, and I can feel the sun settling on my skin. So much so that I regretted not packing extra sun cream in my bag that morning. As the gentle breeze (and the motor) carried me across the highest point on the island, I glanced over at the sun glinting off the sea and verdant ground with farmers working below. Hardly a car, walker, or fellow cyclist in sight at a popular point on an island that saw over four million tourists last year.
