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We stopped off in Xlendia for lunch. It’s a pretty little town at the bottom of a canyon where the creek meets the sea. We were there on a particularly rough day where the swells were lined up just right to come through the narrow mouth of the harbor and smash head-on into the town. On really stormy days, water must come a good distance up into town!
Gozo’s secondary service distribution method.
Just like in Tunisia, guys sit around watching the tourists go by.
The town of Rabat, otherwise known as Victoria is the largest town on Gozo. Rabat is the main fortification on the island and until the last few hundred years, all of the island’s residents were required by law to sleep within its confines. This limited the amount of land that could be cultivated on the island as a person can only walk so far in a day. That’s the reason that Gozo is such a quite, small, and laid back place.
The ferry disgorges its passengers after the return trip to Malta.
This basilica was built sometime in the last 100 or so years. It was placed on the site of a former chapel where, the story goes, a woman saw and talked with the Virgin Mary. I was more interested in the view from the basilica rather than the building itself.
