Top 5 of the most beautiful beaches in Malta

St. Peter’s Pool is one of the most beautiful and breathtaking natural pools in Malta and is located near Marsaxlokk at the tip of Delimara Point in the southwest of Malta. The sea at St. Peter’s Pool is crystal clear with amazing blue and light green colors and offers excellent snorkelling(潜水管潜泳)opportunities. Many young people go there to show their courage by diving from the cliff.

Probably the most famous place on the tiny island of Comino. You will be amazed by the beauty of Blue Lagoon. It’s definitely the highlight of Comino. But be careful,if you don’t like crowded places,avoid going there in summer. However,Comino has other qualities which make the charms of the island,such as the caves,labyrinths of passages,and its glassy water at 28 C° in summer.

Golden Bay is one of the most popular beaches in Malta, and it’s also one of the most touristic. A very beautiful beach of golden sand and easier to access than its neighbor Ghajn Tuffieha. The beach is pleasant because it is located in green setting.

The small bay “Paradise Bay” is located a short distance from Cirkewwa starting point of Gozo’s ferries. Very famous famous among snorkellers, the beach is also unique for being at the feet of towering cliffs and it overlooks the beautiful islands of Gozo and Comino Island. It’s a very popular beach in Malta.

Ghajn Tuffieha Bay is one of the few beaches in northwest Malta with golden sand and clear water. It’s peaceful and surrounded by cliffs and greenery, making it perfect for relaxing, swimming, and enjoying nature. Accessibly by a scenic staircase, it’s a hidden treasure away from crowded tourist areas.

Years ago my family and I stayed in a place famous for its tropical beauty. We walked our dog twice a day, watered the dozens of potted plants, and wandered around, enjoying the break from our usual routines.

One morning, as we packed up for a day at the beach, a voice told me to do a final sweep through the house before leaving. Thankfully, I listened to it. In my grandson’s room I saw a thin curl of smoke rising from his bed. An old lamp was bent over the mattress, and the hot bulb and metal shade were burning a hole in it. I felt sick. Had we left without seeing the lamp, the house could have burned down. It was an old wooden structure with no watering system; it probably didn’t even have a smoke alarm.

We went on with our planned day at the beach. Every so often the close call would crowd into my mind, and my heart would race. I imagined having to contact the owners to tell them their home, filled with family photos, art, and books, had been destroyed. “Thank God it didn’t happen.” I whispered to myself. We finished our stay, leaving a few hours before the owners returned. When I spoke to them on the phone, I offered to buy them a new mattress and recommended they replace the lamp.

A few weeks later I received a note from the wife, telling me her husband had died from an infection he’d gotten while hiking on their trip. At first they’d thought it was no big deal, but six days after their return home, he was dead! It occurred to me then that if we had burned their house down, they would have come home early — perhaps before that hike. They would have been angry and sad, and I would have been filled with guilt. All my life I would have thought — Oh my God, I ruined their lives!

We never know, when misfortune happens, what other far worse disaster we might have avoided.

Going to the Basque Country of Spain, linguistically (就语言角度来看), a Briton may feel he is entering not just another country but perhaps another continent. Familiar world languages — Spanish and French — suddenly give way to Basque, with its strange-looking words of tongue-twisting (绕口的) length. Basque is unrelated to the Indo-European family that includes almost all European languages.

Its survival has not been assured. The rule of Francisco Franco from 1939 to 1975 centralised the state and he insisted that citizens speak Spanish. Public use of Basque was forbidden. When Franco died, the Basque-speaking population was mostly old and rural. For a language, this usually means extinction.

Since the 1980s the number of speakers has grown by almost 350,000, out of a regional population of 2. 1 million. In 2017 two-thirds of pupils were studying in schools where Basque was the language of instruction, up from around 14% in 1984; 87% of 10 to 14-year-olds are estimated to know the language. This is why, in the most recent big survey, the Basque-speaking population (41%) almost matched the non-Basque-speakers (44%). The other 15% are said to understand Basque but struggle to speak it.

But there is another side to the story. In the Basque Country, just 376,000 people have the language as their first, passed down to them in the home. Basque is weakest in the three provincial capitals, where the population is dominated by people from Spanish-speaking homes. Even as the knowledge and influence of the language are growing, actual usage outside schools still seems to be reducing. A similar story could be told of Irish, Welsh, and Maori.

What would it take to get people to live with these languages, as opposed to merely acquiring them? Some Basques say sadly that in a mixed group in which just one person is uncomfortable in Basque, the rest quickly switch to Spanish. They say that in Catalonia, a similar group is more likely to insist on continuing in Catalan, which, for this and unrelated historical reasons, is far more widely spoken in its territory than Basque.