Wednesday 
1.9.2021 
Today we've booked a trip with Supreme Tours to the blue lagoon.
During the boat trip, we realize that it is also possible to make an excursion on Gozo island whereby we quickly put a few Euros on the trip as I had decided to visit the fort on Gozo during our stay anyway.
It was a very pleasant and relaxed boat trip and we change to a bus in the port on Gozo in the early afternoon.
The bus dropped us off next to the fort and we walked briskly there as the window we had for sightseeing was not more than a couple of hours before the bus would pick us up again.
The site of the fort dates back to the Bronze Age, but it began to take its current form in the Middle Ages when it was rebuilt into a fortified castle.
It then served as a fortification for over three hundred years until the British dismantled it in 1868.
It has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1998.
It was a nice excursion with a great panoramic view of Victoria from the ring wall.
The two hours passed quickly and we made our way back to the stop and the bus back to the port.
We made the mistake of sitting at the front on the upper level which gave a nightmarishly clear view of how the bus was actually driven through the narrow streets of Ghajnsielem.
The bus driver was obviously a complete psychopath with complete disregard for human life as he threw the full-sized tourist bus into roads so narrow that it felt completely impossible that we would even fit and with a signal of the horn we rounded blind corners where we would have murdered everything that would have come our way.
It was among the most anxiety-inducing things I've done in a long time.
As it was a guide bus there were phones to plug in to get a presentation of the tourist attractions we passed by in various different languages.
After scrolling past Norwegian, Danish and Scanian we realized that there was no trace of Swedish to be found so the choice fell on English.
However, the track was farcically out of sync with the mad driving of the bus, whereby it was just as incomprehensible in all languages as what you saw did not match the audio description at all.
It wasn't why we chose to go on the trip anyway so it didn't matter much.
After another half hour with the boat, we were at the blue lagoon and it lived up to all expectations.
Emerald green crystal clear water as far as the eye could see.
With the mercury at 33ºC (91ºF) we topped up our hydration levels and explored the rocks before it was time to hop back on the boat and head home.
The journey home back to Valletta took almost three hours but it was time well spent.
Along the coast you can see a large number of towers which are watchtowers erected by the Knights Hospitaller.
The Maltese wrote a petition for a watchtower guarding the Gozo Channel as early as 1418 but nothing happened and the problem only came to the forefront when the Ottomans were sighted in 1598.
Grandmaster Garzes had the first tower built in 1607 but died before further plans could be realized.
He was succeeded by Grand Master Wignacourt who had six more towers built along the coast in 1610-1620.
In the years 1658-1659, Grand Master De Redin had thirteen more towers built.
This is one of De Redin's towers called the Aħrax Tower or the White Tower
The fort
View from the wall
The Cathedral in the fort
"We can afford either a chandelier or a cupola, not both."
"Say no more fam, I've got you."
The Cathedral museum
Something else they couldn't quite afford where obviously sidewalks.
View of the port at Mgarr, Gozo
Blue lagoon
To the left in the distance are the ruins of an old hospital and Saint Mary's Tower, a fortified watchtower and one of the Wignacourt towers built in 1618 used by the Maltese Defense Force until 2002.
