Cycling Around The Whole Of Malta! (Mainland)

In this video, I spontaneously decided to go off to Malta (even though I had thought about wild camping here in January 2024) and I saw someone for a second time that I met solo travelling in Luxembourg, who helped me with things along my journey.

here. So guys, right now the time is 2:39 in the morning and I’m doing another allnighter trip. This time I’m going to Malta. Never been to Morta before. So I spontaneously decided to go going by myself and I’m going to be camping there the full three nights that I am there. That is the plan. I’m bringing my hammock with me, sleeping bag, which is which is taking up most of the space in my backpack, which is a bit of a concern cuz my backpack is very very full. It’s full to the absolute brim, which is literally like pressing against my back and I don’t want the the zips to break cuz they have before. So, yeah, got to watch out for that. And another concern is I don’t really know what it’s like in Malta like wild camping with um the animals cuz there I know there’s some snakes out there. I think it might be quite quite rare to come across snakes. And um there’s also like scorpions. I think there’s fairly venomous scorpions out there. And yeah, I mean it’d be sick to see all the wildlife, but I heard there’s a few like dangerousish dangerousish animals, but yeah, I’m looking I’m really looking forward to this trip. Uh I’ve wanted to do this in January 2024. So last year, January, I wanted to do this wild camping trip. This will be my best wild camping trip yet. So, I’m very excited for it. Just me. I’m gonna try and walk around the whole country, the mainland of the country, and maybe go off to the two other little islands. We’ll see. But yes, Malta, here we come. Wild camping. I’m bringing four power banks. Two of them don’t have too much charge left on them. The other two are full charge and they’re big power banks. So, hopefully it lasts me the whole time. I might need to recharge these GoPro batteries at some point whilst also keeping my phone on charge. Oh, and I just realized I didn’t bring a flashlight with me. I was going to bring my really good one, but I’ve forgotten that now. I met someone solo traveling when I went to Luxembourg that lives there. So, I’ve been messaging him. He said I can charge stuff up at his so I can save battery in my power bank. Anyway, on those notes, it’s time to get the bus to get another bus to get another bus, get to the coach station, get on the coach at the airport, and then take the plane straight over to Malta. Small island country, which is exciting. So, yeah, let’s go. Oh, and we’re at the airport. Nothing beats a Jet 2 holiday. I’m getting a Jet 2 holiday flight whilst the memes are still funny. Thought I’d get a Jet 2 holiday flight to join the transit. So guys, I finally landed after the plane doing laps in a circle for about 5 to 10 minutes straight. Landed safely, but it was doing laps before it could land because of the weather conditions. And yeah, it’s it’s raining heavily here, which is such a shame because it said it was meant to be sunny today in the end, and it just isn’t. So, that is a shocker, especially cuz I’m meant to be hammocking up. But my plan now is to just walk to the nearest supermarket, just get some food um in the nearest town nearby called Lua. Don’t know how to pronounce it, but uh yeah, we’re going to do that cuz can’t really set up a camp or hammock anywhere when it’s like this. So, yeah, let’s go on a walk. Half an hour walk to the supermarket. Let’s go. What else I was going to say is that this raincoat is not really that waterproof waterproof whatsoever. Yeah. So, this water this waterproof coat isn’t so waterproof. It’s more just like a windbreer. So, and I’ve got power banks in here and stuff, and I have no room for my power banks in my bag cuz all the hammock stuff is using up all the space. So, I don’t want my stuff to get soaked, especially as there’s cracks on the GoPro screen. So, hopefully I’m not finished. But yeah, this is not the one. I’ve been running and doing different checkpoints, so different dry spots. This is like my fourth or something checkpoint of dry spot and I’m like 15 minutes away from the little. Oh, so like halfway. So long. Like this just isn’t stopping. It’s constantly been heavy. I tried leaving where I thought it wasn’t as heavy. But man, I don’t know why it’s like this when it’s saying it’s sunny. It’s a shame, but guess it is what it is. And the thing is these puddles are building up. Like look at that. So deep now the puddles. Oh my gosh, it’s like flooded. I’m finished. At least there’s no holes in my shoes. They’re fairly waterproof at least. But yeah, this is not great. And it just just doesn’t seem like it’s going to stop anytime soon. I thought there was a cloud that was going to rush over, but look at this. It’s all white sky. Look at this. A literal ocean. There’s drain pipes just there, but still. So just that was mad. That’s a swimming pool over there. What the heck? That whole the whole street. Oh my gosh. Damn. I did not expect it to be like did not expect the water to be this deep. What the [ __ ] man? [ __ ] Well, the thing is the the it’s now stopped raining, but there’s this to deal with. Um, we’re heading up this way. Actually looks quite nice around here. Nice looking houses. And then Yeah. Oh my gosh. Good thing I did not get splashed there. Oh my gosh. No, this is just mad. Well, on the way to the supermarket and once I have food, I’ll be a bit more freshened up because I’m on no sleep. I I mean, I might have slept like an hour on the plane, I think. Other than that, I’m not I’m not doing too bad for like an hour sleep. I’m actually pretty energized. So, the night before this, no sleep. I only had 6 and 1/2 hours or something sleep. Actually, this is the best I probably ever felt on mostly. So, guys, just now I’m starting to see the capital just over there in the distance. So, we’re going to walk all the way there. Let’s go. So, guys, I’ve just walked up this path up the main road here. So, there’s no paths. Um, and then I jumped over this wall to get onto this bridge cuz it’s just like no paths around here. So, yeah. I’m still heading to the main bit of the city center, Valeta. Look at this view. It’s actually quite sick from here. Let me just pan over. Boom. So, I might have said this at the start of the vlog, but I’m off to see someone that I met solo traveling. Man like Flemmy. Yeah, I’m meeting him at 6:00 today. And I told him to come to Valleta because Yeah, why not? Cuz I’m walking there now. So, I’m going to get some dinner. I don’t know what else we’re going to do. And then and then he said he’s going to lend me his bike, I think. So yeah, this will be good for getting around quicker. And if I have a bike, I can definitely cycle the whole country. Cycle around the mainland, I mean. But yeah, we’ll see how that goes. We’ll see how today plans out to be fair. Where I’m going to sleep, etc. But yeah, I’m just going to stay in the in the capital for a bit. Just chill out there. And then just I don’t know. I probably should be looking for camping spot now, but It’s actually stunning around here. I won’t lie. It actually looks a lot like North Africa as well. It gives me that vibe at least. It’s all sort of like old sandstone brick and just yeah abandoned bits. It’s a big abandoned house is quite cool. That view over there is really cool as well. So yeah, nice nice bit in uh the capital. I’m yet to go up to the to keep going forward that way. It’s lovely so far. So, I’m at the beach. I finally found the beach. And yeah, it’s lovely. It’s nice and relaxing. So, I might try and chill here for a bit. Uh, wait about for about an hour and then go meet FIMI, have some dinner, and then yeah, after find a camping spot, and then that’s the day done. Just go to bed early. If it’s like 22° right now, we’re in like mid-occtober, so that’s it’s quite warm still. So, 10° colder in London. It’s nice to see that all the fish are in the sea. I mean, what is that? Honestly, what is this creature? Looks a lot like an a fat eel or something. If you know what this is, leave it down in the comments. That is the most peculiar looking thing I’ve seen just randomly on the side of the sea. What? Did it just leap out of the sea and decide to just chill there? Nah, it’s probably just got to be fisherman somewhere. Found some spontaneous stairwell. So, let’s go up it. In some cave for some reason. Gone from the beach to the caves. No, not yet. Okay, that’s pretty UK based. What? What do we have here? Is this a post box? Are you joking? No way. And over here they drive on the left side and they have the UK plugs. It’s too UK based. So, right guys, we finally hammockked up. Honestly, this is the best we can do for now. It’s literally touching the ground as you can see. So, I’ve removed some rocks from the ground. This is the best we can do for now. It’s in some private land as well. So, hopefully there’s no complaints in the morning. Literally, there’s like no trees around and when there are, they’re really low. So, we got these low palm tree looking things. And then, yeah, got the bike there. There’s a cliff here which I’m really looking forward to seeing when I wake up into the in the morning. And yeah, big big thanks to Flemmy and his friend for hooking me up with the bike. Basically Fle Flemy’s friend. Flemi is the guy that’s been helping me out from the start. His friend supplied this bike. It’s a big legend. And the bag and stuff to keep my stuff in it like water. Couldn’t have done it without uh the help because of the bike as well because I want to cycle around the island because walking it would be too long for the amount of days I’m here. So yeah, I’m gonna get the sleeping bag in and the waterproof tarp over the top. Hopefully in the morning when I wake up it’s all sound. This will be the best view I ever wake up to from a wild camp. But yeah, it’s time to get some sleep. I’m on like 1 hour sleep from getting that on the plane. So I’m knackered. I just need to sleep straight up. I just got my hammock out and just set up and I’m not going to pack it away again to find better trees. Like this is it. Time to get the rest of it set up and then good night. Also, I was going to say something else. Something really mad just happened. I was just walking by and I saw some tent and I was like, I have to ask this person like if there’s any good camping spots walking further up cuz I was walking past him. and he came out and he was like, “Yeah, there there’s some trees further along.” He was like looking at the maps to sort of reassure me that there was more trees further up, which they’re all in private property, so it’s an massive L. Is what it is. It looked like there were trees, but realistically, it’s just random shrubbery. But yeah, it was so random just seeing someone else wild camping on the cliff edge as well. It’s crazy. Very scenic um camping spots. We’ll see how scenic it is in the morning. But on that note, good night guys. See you for day two. So, what an insane view to wake up to. Look at this. Just absolutely unreal. I kind of woke up hearing a couple people chatting. That was it. I think they were the people that there was a couple people hiking up this way. But yeah, there’s not really many people about at all. Very nice and peaceful. I mean, it’s it’s 9:55, so it’s not even too late in the day. I thought I’d wake up quite a bit later because I had zero hours sleep, so I’ve got 9 hours sleep, which is good. I was thinking of going for a morning swim, so I might try and head down that way. So guys, I’m just getting changed into fresher clothes now and then it’s time to pack up and go going to head on. If I was walking, I would take this route right along the edge, but cuz I’ve got the bike, I’m going to take that. There’s a road just there round and keep going. So, cuz I got the bike, I can’t do the proper outskirts cliff edge the whole way round. I have to sort of take the the road route instead so the bike can move fast enough. Otherwise, I’ll be pushing the bike for a lot of the way if I’m just going along these routes. So, yeah, time to get changed and packed up, ready to go. So guys, I’m now on route again. It’s now like 11:30. I was just chilling for a bit and I was packing up. So, this is the setup. We’ve got this bin bag on the side. It’s a bit It’s a quite a big pain to cycle with. Oh, [ __ ] Saying that as I go almost go into the brush. But yeah, it’s a pain because just keeps bashing into the wheel, but I kind of need it. So, I have no room in my backpack and I’ve got a big thing of water in here and it is hot. And I’ve got some some nuts. I’m starving now, but I don’t really want that for breakfast. Need to find somewhere to eat realistically. So, I’m off to St. Peter’s Pool. It’s just down there. Very cool. Like a natural pool within the rocks. Looks like a good jumping in spot. So, just going to stop off here quickly for a quick swim cuz that’s what I wanted to do the morning. Just nice morning swim. It’s nice and warm. So, let’s go. Right. So, I’m now finally here. Here it is. Lovely view. And I’m not going to film me swimming cuz it’s going to use up too much of the battery. I won’t be able to stop recording until I’m out. But it looks lovely though. So guys, I’ve just been for a lovely swim. It was so nice jumping in at the spot over there. And now I’m going to keep going with my journey. It’s really fun jumping. It’s about 6 m jump into the water here. And it’s like a nice pool bit and also it’s fun fun climbing up the rocks as well. Nice little holds on these rocks to climb up. Done a nice cycle downhill and we’re now at the beach again. Lovely little beach. Nice and open. Let’s keep on going. So annoying having to carry this water while cycling because it’s just Yeah, it’s really inconvenient like holding the brake whilst just hurting my fingers. But I need to carry water with me. I need to get another bag from somewhere. What the heck is this? Some like abandoned [ __ ] rolls or some [ __ ] What is this? It’s like in a junkyard. The heck? We’re near like Delimara. We’re just past it. This like small town bit. Pretty nice. So yeah, it’s hard to film by the way because like the GoPro is kind of tightly tucked into my pocket. I’m trying to film when I can. But yeah, so I’ve just made a quick pit stop for breakfast, even though it’s like 1:30. Got some like burk, which I’ve had in Bosnia before. It’s really nice. So I knew to get this. Any I’m going to walk to the beach now, eat it there, and keep going. Here’s the view. So guys, just stopped off at these ruins. It’s nothing much, but just a little checkpoint for me. And after this, I’m going to go more towards the coast again, cycling because I’ve just been cycling past more like um ind industrial bits, harbors with cargo ships and stuff. But now I’m more in the into the peaceful bit again. So I think it’s up that way over there, that little road or it’s just down some little road to get to the coast again. I’m going to see more cliffs. Yeah, I hope to keep going and get to this like park that I’ve been looking at sleeping at cuz it’s got quite a few trees there unlike most of this place. So, I wouldn’t recommend hammocking here if you’re ever coming to Malta. But yeah, I’m going to get going now. Time to continue. Only doing quick stops cuz I want to make sure I’m getting far want to want to cover all of Malta if I can. Hopefully. So, I’ve just stopped off cuz look how hilly this is. You probably can’t tell on video, but it’s steep. It’s the steepest hill I’ve come across. Has been a little bit hilly on the roads in Malta. But yeah, this one’s really steep. Even in first gear, I was like, “No, it’s too too steep.” Giving it a little walk and then Yeah. Right by the sea, though. It’s just over there. But yeah, look at the change up of scenery already. Quiet roads, countryside. It’s cuz there’s not much about, not really many shops. So, I’m hoping when I get to my location where I want to sleep, I won’t be too far from like at least one or two shops because from now on, I’m more in the countryside bit than anywhere else. So, I’ve got to be wary of that. I’ve got some peanuts in my bag, but that’s all I’ve got for food. Got about a liter of water left. But yeah, let’s keep on going. Another steep hill. I don’t know if you can see, but I’ve stopped off to see this cool island off of Malta in the sea. It’s It looks sick. Look over there. That tiny dot. That part there. I guess you can just about see it on camera, but it’s pretty far away. Getting a boat to there would be unreal. Just camping out there for the night be so sick. But yeah, just thought I’d quickly stop to see that. Now I’ve got a bit of a downhill, which is good. So, we’ve reached a little town or whatever. There just randomly peacocks over there just chilling. So, yeah, we’ve reached some town, which is good. So, maybe I might try and find somewhere else to get a bit more food and get lunch now cuz I’ve only had breakfast. It’s 3:30. Should probably get going. Let’s see which route I’m taking. That’s where I am right now. That’s the name of the place. We’re there on the map. So yeah, I want to try and get up to Popeye’s Village at some point. And yeah, so I’ve just cycled through all of this little town. And now look at this. There’s this really massive like canyon/ ravine that leads into the sea. It’s crazy. That is so mad. Such a nice view. Such a beautiful area. Look at these beautiful roads. Pretty wide road as well and no cars, let alone bikes. We’ve just got this main road for quite a bit, I think. Oh, I think it splits off to like one more road. And there’s like this village or whatever or small town that I want to stop off at and get some food, get some lunch slash dinner, stuff like that and then should be sorted cuz that’ll probably be the only other place I can get food that’s fairly close anyway. So yeah. So, cuz it’s on the way, otherwise I have to like do a detour, go away from the coast, which is where I want to stick to cuz I’m trying to go around all of the coastal line as much as I can whilst going on the roads. Also, one quick thing to mention is it’s such a pain holding this 2 L of water. Might have mentioned it earlier, but it is honestly a pain um cycling with this. This is insane. What a view for cycling. Oh my gosh. And we got a nice downhill here as well. This is lovely. Get some proper footage of me cycling. Bam. So, I feel like I haven’t filmed too much. in this corner. There is another cyclist. Not just me then. Not just me. I mean, it is a cool cycle route and like it is doable the whole island. So, I assume a few people do cycle it. But yeah, probably mostly people that live here cuz I don’t know if that I don’t know if there’s many places to hire out bikes here. I got lucky with this one though. Boom. Look at this. Just like fields and then going down some smaller road now. It’s pretty peaceful out here. Running out of water though. To be fair, it is a pain to carry. So, I actually don’t mind once I run out. I’ll just cycle. I might as well finish this now and then cycle for like an hour more till I get to this town called like Dingley or something and then go there, get some water and then camp near there, I reckon. Although I’m trying to camp in like an hour. Time is only 5, so it’s a bit early to start setting up camp. I’ll see. I might just chill there for like a good half an hour so I can fully gain back some energy. So I’ not been taking long breaks, just quick ones. So yeah, time to go for one more hour, push through and have a decent break and then keep going. Let’s go. As you can tell, I’m really in the countryside now. Look at all these like mountainous rocks. Like look, there’s people up there just chilling. Crazy viewpoint up there. But I don’t really know how to get up there from here. Plus, I don’t want to detour up to there. I’m not too fast going up there. So, yeah. Look how small these roads are now. And more bumpy terrain going down these roads. Let’s just double check. Is this route should be cuz that’s a T- road closed off. Oh, I think it actually is up there. It’s a bit mad. Good thing I didn’t bomb it down there to walk back up to do this. So nice. Just bombed it on my bike through this part downhill on the off-road part. And now I’ve got to go uphill again. And this is just not even cyclable terrain really. Look how big these stones are. So it might be a bit of a walking one. Yep. Oh my gosh. This is only a walking trail. Put in walking trail for the route to Dingly. And this route is closest to the coast, so I took it. But it doesn’t give you a cycling route. This is why I chose the walking route instead. And this is why it doesn’t give you a cycling route, cuz I mean, look at this. My phone just died. But I’ve got a power bank still, like a a bit another big one. I’ve already used up my first big one. I’ve got two small ones that aren’t even fully charged. So hopefully I I can um power through. I’ll be good for today, but tomorrow might need to charge up. funnily enough, this route that I’m taking is a zigzag route up. Zigzags all the way to the top where the people were. So, funnily enough, I’ll be up there for the viewpoint, but yeah, I did not expect this, but hopefully most of the route is not like this going to Dingly, but we’ll see. We’ll see. So, we just stopped off in Dingley. Finally made it and we went to the corner shop/bakery and just made ourselves a little salami sandwich or ham sandwich. And yeah, just cuz this this my lunch. So, I made myself a sandwich. But this is where we are. We’re just chilling in this small field. And then yeah, I’m knackered. Knackered from cycling all up all these hills, man. Yeah, it looks like it’s getting darker as well. So yeah, first full day. It’s mostly done. I do kind of want to cycle on for a bit more after like half an hour break here. And then um just cuz I want to get to closer to Popeye’s Village. So that’s the the tip of the other side. So I would have gone. So I started at the tip of the other end and then Popeye’s village is near the tip of the opposite end from that. So basically I want to get closer to that at least today or get to it today depending on how how it goes. And then yeah, I think we could though cuz it’s only like 8 right now. So yeah, it’s the sun is setting real quick. I got the time wrong earlier. It wasn’t 8. It’s almost 7 now. Like 12 minutes to 7. sunset in the background. But yeah, I wanted to do quite a bit more cycling. Might try and do like an hour more at least and then see where we get. Hopefully, we’re near some trees or a decent spot and we’ll get camps up and yeah, that’ll be today. But it’s it’s early though right now. It’s only like 7. Realistically, I could keep going for a few more hours before midnight. So, I don’t really need to go to bed earlier than midnight. Oh, no. At least if I find a spot at 11:00 so I can go to bed at midnight cuz I have to set up as well. Yeah, few hours still. I reckon just power through and then we good. There’s so much lightning right now going on in the distance. I can’t hear any thunder, but there is definitely lightning. It’s going off every like 10 seconds. Look, there’s just a bit there. I don’t know if it’s catching on camera, but yeah, there’s some there’s some lightning over there for sure. And hopefully I’m all good. Oh my gosh, I’ve just found a dead chameleon. What the heck? This proves I’m in the proper wildlife now from spotting things like this. Also, I just did some mad downhill route. Like the maddest downhill ever. It was so sick. Like I got so much speed and just it saved so much of the so much of the journey. Like honestly, I can’t even say like how much that’s helped. It was like for like it felt like a couple of kilometers or something. Just really fast downhill. Ah, so helpful. I can actually get to Popeye’s Village tonight. I’m less than 5 kilometers away, which is really not far. So, I’m definitely going to make it there tonight. And that’ll be good. So, then I would have gone from the bottom of the island all the way to the top in one day. It’s big relief that. Yes, guys. So, I finally made it to Popeye Village. I’m so relieved. I made it all this way just today. And good thing I didn’t stop off earlier. But to be fair, there’s not much else to do. There’s nothing else to do for me but cycle and then sleep really and camp it out. So, you know, cuz until it’s done, I’ve just got to keep cycling. It’s 9:30 now. So, going to try somewhere find somewhere to sleep and then Yeah, there’s also there’s like an entrance here into Papay’s village and I don’t know how to get in otherwise. Apparently, it’s like a theme park or something. I don’t really know what it is, but it’d be sick if there’s somewhere to hammock up like underneath one of the houses. If it’s like on stilts or if there’s somewhere in here. I don’t know. I just want to check the place out first. It’s right by the sea as well. So, I could even go for like a late night swim. Although, I wouldn’t dry off so it’s probably not a good idea. But yeah, let’s go and explore. Guys, I’m in. I don’t really know what to expect to be honest. But going to give it a look around. I think that’s the ticket office is over there. There’s a small hole in the fence there. pretty finding wildlife. Seen quite a lot of these beetles in Malta. They’re pretty common. Um and yeah, time to explore. What the heck is this place? This is actually mad. So cool. I can’t wait to see this in the day. Maybe get in through the same bit. [ __ ] I think there’s people here. There’s a light in there. I can’t lie. What? This is sick. This whole theme park is just What’s in here? Maintenance room or something. Let’s go up here. I don’t know how far it goes. Guy didn’t see me. I didn’t see him either for this place. So, I’ve just entered one of the buildings at the back. It’s got like board games and stuff here. What is this? This is so cool. It’d be mad if I slept here, but to be honest, there’s probably workers here before it starts, so it’d be a bit too Yo. So, I’ve just found their storage room. It’s got literally everything in here. All the Christmas tree like all the designs and stuff just over here. Like this is crazy. The heck, right? It’s creepy at night. Nice. Damn. It’s literally beds over there. Damn. Well, I found the sunbed bit. That’s for sure. Oh, man. Oh, man. It’s so nice just lying here right now. But to be fair, it’s not really cuz I literally have to find somewhere to sleep still. Otherwise, I wouldn’t mind. I’ve run out of water. So, and I’m pretty thirsty right now, which is a shame. I would say after I’ve done that, go get some water for have a drink, but I can’t right now. I’ve got I’m hungry now and I’ve got some peanuts, but they’re salted peanuts and I’m like, uh, that’s just going to make me all thirsty. So, I might just have to wait till the morning, just sleep soon. I need to set up soon. That means so I can just go straight to sleep, wake up, go to the shops. Oh, this is so sick. They’ve got like a bowling thing. What the heck? Free bowling. Would give it a go now, but it might be a bit risky. Oh, the key is here. No one’s in there, though. Popeye’s village complete. And I’m just leaving now. So, I’ll make sure I can get out first. All safe and sound. Basically, the guy that is working here is like English and I heard him speaking. Oh my gosh, heard a sound. Just walked into some next farm and look how many watermelons and butternut squashes there are. Blime me, mate. Basically, I walked past through like kind of past the fence to get into this private land or whatever. It’s like farmland, so it looks a bit too risky to camp at. It’s right next to the Popeye’s village, though. Boom. Not camping here tonight. At this point, I really just want to find somewhere to sleep. So hopefully I can find somewhere nice soon and then we can just sleep. Oh my gosh, guys. There’s a kiosk just down the road from Popeye’s village and it looks open. This is such a good relief. I can have dinner and water. I just hope it’s open. Let’s see. Let’s see. Let’s see. [Music] There’s goats here and chicken. The heck? Chicken. goes food dinner sorted. I got given this dinner for free. So I tipped him €250 cuz this was €250. Such a relief there was this place. They said there was no food left. So they just gave me the the dinner that he had or whatever. Boom. There’s the sea just down there, but it’s dark, so I can’t really show you. And right now, I’m heading off to the nature reserve, which is hopefully all right for hammocking. Well, it looks really good with the trees compared to anywhere else here. Should be good. So, I’ve got my hopes up for it. And then, yeah, I just felt some wind. Yeah, it’s pretty windy, although that’s kind of stopped, I think. And then felt some drops of rain that’s kind of stopped now, but it must have been cuz of that lightning in the distance. So, I don’t think I can really see the lightning anymore, which is good cuz I was hoping it doesn’t drift over to over this side a bit more. So, I couldn’t hear any thunder. So, that means it’s 10 mi plus away. Off to the nature reserve. It’s not too far. And then hopefully should be able to hammock up in somewhere with plenty of trees and like open space as in like big amount of space for camping up. More foresty vibes hopefully. Let’s go. Also, that place was great. The kiosk honestly saved me. Yeah, I am walking with a water in my hand still. So, yeah, I kind of made the mistake of buying a big bottle again, although I wanted a big bottle. So, yeah. Oh, and I think I’m at the nature reserve already. Would you look at that? I thought it was way further up the road. I was also going to save the guy. Literally can’t believe he gave me free dinner. He gave me um his pasta. He gave me that cuz I asked for food. They didn’t have any hot food, so I was just eating that for dinner. So luckily had dinner, proper dinner as well being pasta and yeah that was great. So legends there. Thank you to the kiosk. They didn’t even show up on the maps as like a shop or anything but luckily had that there plus the water. So that saved me for tonight. That was such a lucky fortunate clutch there. And yeah, cuz he gave me the pasta, I gave him a tip. And then yeah, off to the nature reserve we go. Yo guys, so I’ve just walked back down to the entrance to park my bike up here. So, it’s just easier me walking through the forest. But main reason is that there’s an abandoned like hotel nearby to where I’m hammocking up. It should be sick to explore that tomorrow in this abandoned hotel. But yeah, it looks like it’ll be sick. I saw it from a distance even though it was dark and it’s um I was like, “What is that?” Saw it as an abandoned hotel and I was like, “Sick.” Got to do that tomorrow. So, first thing in the morning, going to check that out. That should be fun. And then yeah, also another thing, apparently there are chameleons here, which is sick. Could you imagine I just wake up to one in the morning? No, it’d be sick. Um, it’d be sick to see one. Maybe in the day when I’m walking to the abandoned hotel, I’ll see it. I found my hammocking spot. Finally, after doing like 30 miles from this tree. It’s pretty low down again, a low down tree to this one. It’s quite a cute little spot. You can’t really see it on the with just the torch, but there are there. Thought it was a cute little spot. So, I’m going to use this bit even though it’s right by this path. It’s quite a secret path from the main path. So, I should be okay. I don’t think there’ll be too many people walking by. Unless maybe in the morning there might be a few, but I should be all good. This part just feels really hidden and just cozy cuz the trees are low. Pretty soft ground here, too. So, even if I was touching the ground, it’d be pretty good. And then yeah, finally found a spot like a actually pretty decent spot. And plus, I don’t want to go any further up really. Like here’s nice. So yeah, time to get set up and then go to bed. The time is 2 minutes to 12. So we’ll be ready to sleep at like 12:30. Last night we went to bed at 1:00. So yeah, that’s fine. Let’s go. Hammock is complete. That is day two finished. Now have a good night, guys. We’re going to go on to day three. Last full day tomorrow. Let’s get it. Morning, guys. So, it’s the last full day, which means I’m really going to power through today and get hopefully all the cycling done. Hopefully going to re rely on hills as well to really push me forward as well on the bike cuz I did another long downhill yesterday, which really boosted me forward to where I needed to be. So, I’m going to hope for a couple downhills. I know when I get to Valeta, which is the capital, the roads will be much nicer. Also on the way there’s like a nice beach I might stop off at which is a couple hours walk away. So but yeah, I’ve woken up. I thought it was a little bit windy yesterday last night. So I put a couple stones down here which helps pretty well cuz there’s quite a lot of stones here which is good to support the waterproof tarp. It didn’t rain or anything. It wasn’t too windy from what I know. But something pretty unfortunate has happened. This this twig has split and there’s sap coming out of the tree. It’s dropped straight onto my waterproof tart. And yeah, that’s not great cuz sap I don’t know how really how to get sap out of this. And I definitely don’t have the resources to get sap out of my waterproof tarp right now. So, well, I’ve got one more night, so it’s not too too bad. Hopefully, I can get it cleaned up. And then, yeah, this is the location. This is the spot. It’s pretty chill and relaxing around here. just like this low to the low down little spot here. I really like it this camping spot. It’s kind of more chill than last night’s one because I haven’t even seen anyone or heard anyone. Can hear the cars a little bit, but other than that, it’s really peaceful. I was touching the floor again last night. Oh, I’m pretty tired and hopefully my legs can keep powering through and don’t get too achy. Nearer to the start. Hoping there’s not too many hills to start me off at least. Hoping it’s at least more flat. I wouldn’t mind. That’d be quite nice. And then yeah, let’s just see how it goes. I do want to kind of get breakfast. Got a little bit more water on me. Time to pack up and get ready to go. The time is also What’s the time? 10:30. So, get packed and ready to leave by 11:00. I’ll be leaving earlier than yesterday. Yesterday, I left at I think 12:30. So, we should be good. Okay, let’s get going. Also, something I forgot to mention. The mosquitoes were a pain in the ass yesterday. Like, they were all the bites were all over my back and they were so hard to itch and they were extremely itchy last night. When I was trying to sleep, it was horrible. And the bikes are all over my legs now as well and stuff like that. So, I think when I’m wearing my backpack cycling, it’s not really noticeable, but like trying to sleep last night was a nightmare. So, hopefully it’s not as bad tonight. But, we’ll see. Anyway, let’s get to it. Oh no, I just realized there was more sap here, but I don’t think it’s stripped onto this. It’s cuz every branch I snapped, there was sap coming out of it, which is [ __ ] Oh, there’s some on there. Let me try and wipe that off. So guys, this was the spot. We’re now leaving it. We’re going to head up this way and then the abandoned hotel should literally be right there. Let’s go. Okay, now about 30 seconds later, we are here. This is it. Pretty sick. I don’t really see a way in yet. Oh, never mind. There’s a fat hole here. The fence like there was for that theme park. Look at this view, though. View is insane. Woo! Another lovely view to wake up to. And then, yeah, you can see the sea this side and that side over there. That bit, which is sick. So that proves how like thin the width of this section is to Malta. In we go. And we’re in. It’s time to climb up. These are pretty solid. Hopefully. That looks so risky. Damn. This might not be the way up. Here we are now inside the hotel. Oh. Oh, here we are. The stairs. That is sick. That is so cool. It’s nice and quiet as well. Just hear the birds. It’s pretty peaceful. Oh, this place was massive. Crazy location. It was so close to where we camped. Hello. No one’s here from what I know. Outside bit. Yeah, it would be cool to get on that roof. Avoid. It’s pretty sick. I guess through here is the roof. Very cool. What a view. Sick building. Let’s go. Keep on going. Keep on going. Wa. So sick. From here. We’re at pretty much the very top cuz we need to get to that part. My gosh, look. There’s a castle in the distance that people are at over there. That is cool as well. I think cool having both sea views as well. It’s nice, man. So, it’s 11:20. By the time I get to my bike, it’ll be 11:30 and then we’ll hit the road from there and start cycling. And yeah, should be a good one. But, yeah, just wanted to quickly come up here. So, we’re on the bike again. Going to cycle a couple hours, I think, and then stop off and have breakfast and stuff. That is the plan. Oh, I don’t know if I can go up here. H, I think it’s fine. I want to stay as close to the coast as I can. And I’ve done like the most outskirt parts of the country as I can, but sometimes it has to be a bit of a detour further into the middle of the country, but that’s fine. I don’t know if you can see how much I’m sweating, but I’m finally just about on track. This is the road I’m meant to be on because if I’m to follow the walking route on Google Maps, this is the road I should be on. I took a quick detour. I had to climb this massive road just because I went a little bit further along the the coastline by the sea cuz I wanted a nicer view, but I didn’t realize it takes so much of a tool. I feel like the walking route would have given me just a better route in general instead of that massive hill. Yeah, cuz this area is just bu built on a hill as you can see. But yeah, it’s still going to be a bit hilly for a bit, I think. But we’ll just see. But I’ve got like 5 km till until I get to where I need to be at. Shouldn’t be there in too long hopefully. And then yeah, stop off there, have breakfast, and swim and stuff. Just chill out for a bit. That was so knackering though. Like a massive steep hill first thing in the morning. It’s not what I want after being achy from yesterday. But so I just bombed it down this road here, this main road, and it was absolutely insane. I filmed on my phone, so I’ll add that clip in. And yeah, that was just unreal. Like the hill bombs were out here are so much fun. It’s very annoying having to cycle up them. Like I had to cycle back up this hill here. Yeah, that’s the annoying part. But you know, you do have a lot of fun cycling down them. So low key, it does feel worth it in the end. But yeah, we’re in like this really old town looking bit. This is sick. I’ve stopped off. I’m starving. I just need to eat my breakfast. I went to this like small bakery place. It’s actually so good. Like chicken mayo sandwich with tomatoes and bacon in it. Good breakfast. But I was just going to say it’s not looking too promising. Look at what’s to come. I mean, look how dark those clouds are. I can feel the wind and it’s it’s like really cold wind out for some reason. Oh, I got to just keep moving. But maybe it’s not great to stop by the beach. Although, I will be kind of passing it. So, yeah. I was going to eat a sandwich at the beach, but I’m just too hungry now cuz I can’t really be asked for like the main road. just sat at a main road like eating lunch, which isn’t the best location to eat lunch, but you know, I’d rather be eating on the beach, but I was too hungry, man. Like, I didn’t have too much for dinner last night. Well, and of course, as expected, it’s rained and it’s fairly light rain right now. Actually, it’s kind of average, actually. No, it’s pretty bad. Um, and then there’s thunder and lightning. So, yeah, as you can hear, this is really bad. I’m about 6 milesi away from Valleta, the capital. And then it’s not much further from there. But this is just a shame. And it’s my last full day here, so hopefully I can do it. And this doesn’t look like it’s going to clear up soon. Like the first day I got here, so it’s [ __ ] Really, I’m just kind of camping it out right now. Just nowhere really to hide from the rain. Let’s quickly just duck under here. [ __ ] It’s an absolute storm right now. I’m so lucky that when I was sleeping, this wasn’t happening cuz I saw lightning in the distance. This could have been me. I could have been sleeping in this. Oh my gosh. I would have been so done. So done if I was sleeping in this cuz my hammock was touching the ground. Yeah, I was under trees. But like even then, I mean, just look at this. It’s a proper storm now. Oh, I don’t know how long it’s going to be like this before. But I’m I’m literally stuck here now. I’m stuck. I can’t really get any more soap and my coat isn’t very warm. It’s already wet. So windy now, guys. I’ve finished. This thunder is so loud. Like it just struck a few minutes ago and then another time just now. It’s like it literally sounded like it was from like 10 m away. I’m not even taking the piss. [ __ ] man. Oh my gosh. So, if I was cycling in this right now, I don’t know how high the chances are that I’d [ __ ] get hit by lightning, but it was so loud. It’s like a full-on like sounded like a [ __ ] bomb. Like, for real. Like, that is the closest thing I’ve heard to a [ __ ] bomb going off. Like, oh my gosh, man. This [ __ ] is nuts. So, it seems like it’s died down a fair bit. I’m still here. I’ve I don’t know how long I’ve been here for. Probably at least a half an hour. And yeah, I might have to just keep going cuz yeah, it is raining still. But I think it’s going to be raining at least a little bit for a while. I mean, at least it’s gone from gray clouds to white clouds. So, there’s an improvement. And I’m back on the road. I’m on this main road. So, it’s this long main road the whole way until we get to like Valeta at least. which is really nice and it seems to be fairly flat. So, it should be a really quick journey just taking this road to be honest. It’s like 9 km to Valleta which is not too bad. If the roads are the this flat so hopefully I should be there in no time then that’ll be great cuz the other side of this island was just really hilly and stuff like that. didn’t really have any roads at some points and etc. Like and it’s also right by the sea the whole way there pretty much I think. So that’s also a bonus. So we’re also doing the outskirts of the of the country which is nice as well. Look. Woo. It’s raining but still a beautiful place. So you know just saw some lightning over there. So guys, I can’t lie, I’m just getting much too soaked and it’s risky with all my electrical equipment and stuff. Especially cuz this power bank, it’s got like a split in it there. It’s risky. Can’t get water in that. And there’s loads of cracks on my GoPro screen, which is risky as well. And it’s risky getting this like cable wet. It’s my only iPhone cable. I’m soaked right now. But yeah, I’m trying to get to Valleta, but it’s pissing it down like really heavy again. I’ve still just been cycling through it. It’s good, but it’s been so bad. Like, at least it was easy roads. If it was like cliff hills and stuff, I’d be punished. Bro, this is so bad. The key is literally stuck in this lock. I can unlock this bike lock, but I can’t take the key out if I want to lock it. At least I can unlock it, but like the key is jammed in there. [ __ ] man. I can’t lock my bike up the rest of the time. This is long. I was going to go to the shops right now. Although, there is this cover that could probably hide the bike in. So, I might just do that for now. Let’s get enough stuff for now. Eat and drink. And then yeah, so we got lunch right now. This panini sandwich again. Second time in the day getting a panini sandwich. And then yeah, got water as well. It’s good. We’re just sitting on the stairs in a car park right now cuz my bike’s left in the car park. I don’t I think the weather’s really died down. I can’t really remember. This is pretty similar. long days, but you know what it is. It is what it is. So guys, it’s finally stopped raining. It stopped raining. We’re by some harbor bit right now. I don’t really know what this area is, but getting much closer to Valleta, so that’s good. And then that’s like a next checkpoint bit, I’d say. Uh it would just be nice to like pass through there cuz it’s got the most there. And then [ __ ] got to avoid these big puddles. And then yeah, let’s keep going. Nice. So, right now we’re in Hamrun/MDA. I don’t know. Random names for these places, but we’re going to keep going. I can never really tell where I actually am, like what town or whatever. Doesn’t seem that specific on maps. It’s cool like passing by you go from not seeing the sea to seeing the sea. It’s a good switch off the scenery. I would have had to wait like a few hours, but I’m lowkey thinking I should have waited until cycling. Should have waited till it was dried cycle because like my shoes are soaked which is the worst part but also like my everything’s soaked. My coat, my trousers are really soaked. Say it’s not good. Maybe I should have waited but at the same time I just wanted to go. Like I want to make the most of my time and be time efficient. I’ve gone for that approach instead. I let it die down a little bit but still even then Oh, is that over there? All right there like past this harbor. Yes. So guys, woo, that is Val Valeta. We’re just coming into it now, which is a huge relief that we’ve made it to this point. Not much longer to go from there. I guess it shouldn’t take too long. I think the roads might be not too bad. Not too much longer to go and we’ve completed it. Absolutely completed it, mate. So guys, I’m down to my last 5k, which is actually pretty mad. But I’m going to take more of an outskirt route. So it’ll be a bit longer than 5k. But 5k doesn’t take long to cycle. So yeah, the time is like 5:15 right now. So I’ll make it with plenty of time left in the day to do whatever else. I’ve also got the bus card I can still use. So I might just use that and just explore the rest of the rest of Malta. Maybe to go to some of the bits that I haven’t really seen as much. And yeah, that’ll be good that I have um spare time to do whatever else. So that’s exciting to that’s exciting stuff. But yeah, I got to get changed into dry clothes once I finish cycling and then yeah, that should be good. I mean, I’m not fully on the outskirts the whole time cycling, but it is kind of difficult sometimes, especially when on the other side of the island when I was coming across loads of cliffs and like roads that just weren’t suitable and stuff like that. I couldn’t really cycle down. Um, so yeah, it’s hard to go. There’s there’s no straight line. It’s there’s loads of like curved roads and stuff. It’s it’s weird. It’s kind of hard to cycle around. But I’m on the other side on like the side where Valleta’s on. So there’s more just main roads and stuff like this. So it’s quite a bit easier to cycle on the outskirts. But yeah, I’ve kind of just been sticking to the walking route. But for quite a bit of it, it’s kept me on the outskirts of the the island. So that’s been good. Anyway, I would have still cycled the whole island regardless of how close I stick to the outskirts. So I’m happy regardless. But so we’re just in Zabar right now instead of just going past the side of it. I’m I decided to go straight through it just so I’m bit more on the outskirts and just so I get a bit more of an enjoyable um trip cuz going through this whole like town or whatever it is is a bit nicer of a trip. Makes it a bit nicer of a trip. Sorry. Got to stop off and see all the towns and stuff. Got to see all the iconic bits. That’s what I’m trying to do. Oh, this is nice. I’m going through proper like farmland again. As you can see, it’s very nice. So much nicer than just those main roads and stuff which I’ve been doing for a good minute. So, I haven’t seen this area in a good minute. So, it’s nice and peaceful and refreshing to see it again cuz the other side of this island was just that’s all I was seeing pretty much. This is beautiful. But yeah, I like these nice thin countryside roads. It’s very cool. Just these old stone walls. Lovely and authentic. Oh, what a view. You can see those buildings in distance and just farmland. Nice. Now we’ve got the sea over there. What? Bosch. Oh, we’re off road now. Damn, son. Damn. This is such a steep off road. Oh, half of it’s road, half of it’s not. Straight down to the sea. It’s always It always gets really steep as soon as you go down to the sea. Damn. Just got down here and what a view. Look at all of this. So nice. That’s like a historic place on Google Maps. That building there. And there’s two other buildings as well. Like really old looking buildings. Nice cliff edge as well. Probably good for jumping in if it’s deep enough. But yeah, this is nice. It’s very scenic. Not Not many people about as well. And there’s a Donny with a shotgun. What the [ __ ] It’s a bit mental. What the heck? That dude has a shotgun. What the [ __ ] That is so rogue. He was just casually walking around with a gun and he’s loading it up. Let me get out of here real quick. And no, I’m not hitting the brakes on this off road. And I’m now away from the guy with the shotgun. Far enough away. That was so random. He just walks out his car casually with a shotgun. Guess you can just do kind of do that in Malta. I don’t know how strict the police are and stuff, but it’s pretty deserted area this. I feel like it’s actually a really relaxed and safe place here. I don’t know if there are any dodgy parts or stuff like that. But if you know, then let me know in the comments. But yeah, from what I’ve seen, and I’ve just cycled around the whole island pretty much, it seems pretty safe and chill. I’ not really spoken to many people here, but I mean the guy that gave me free dinner or whatever seemed nice. So surely they’re used to English people here as well, like as an English tourist. They got all the English stuff here. The post boxes, the plugs, driving on the left side, and like even the bins look the same. Like everything just looks like it’s imported from the UK. Time to do the last little track with this nice road to finish it. Nice off-road bit. What a view. Nice. So, we’re cycling on the road again. We’re at like a a peak of one of the peaks of the island. There. We’re there right now. And we have to get over to there. So, really not too far. Let’s see how far it says. Actually, directions 2.7K, 36 minutes walk. So, cycling, that’s about half a minute. Oh, there’s an abandoned hotel over there, which um the guy that lent me this bike recommended me to sleep in, but there’s no really anywhere hammock over there. It’s massive. This bit’s nice and scenic with all the palm trees in that tropical and that. It’s a really nice sunset behind me there. Lovely stuff. So, this place is called Marasala, which is like the area I end my trip. So, I’m going to be at the house soon. And yeah, I think I’ll be able to see the abandoned apartments here in a second or abandoned hotel or whatever it is. Here they are, the abandoned apartments. It’s massive space. And there’s some sick castle thing here. But yeah, and the sunset. Lovely and beautiful. Just take a look how bloody deep some of these puddles are. Look at that. Just the whole road covered. Man, that’s crazy. And yeah, the fact I’m like half a mile away is mad. Basically finished this journey. So yeah, pretty knackered. I mean, it’s not raining right now. I don’t know if it’s going to be raining when I wake up and stuff. It might be risky camping. I was thinking of finding just an abandoned building, maybe sleeping in that for the last night, but I don’t know. I’m going to check the weather and see. And then Yeah. Also, look at this mad sunset. So guys, here we are. That is the end. just like around the whole of Malta. Finally. What an adventure, man. That was some insane trip. I’m filming on my iPhone cuz both my GoPro batteries died. But wa we finished with this beautiful sunset. How nice is that? But yeah, this is the bay I started at. House is just over there. Look at the sunset just all around, man. So nice. And now I just get to chill. just so relieved. I was looking forward to that time where I could just chill. So, thanks for watching, guys. Hope you enjoyed it. Let me know what you think of this video. Bit of a mad one. And yeah, well, I’m not this the vlog’s not over yet, but that’s the end of the cycle. So, yeah. Bosch. So, I tracked my journey on Straa the one way and then the other way. It was uh 4 hours 40 for this for today and yesterday was 5 hours 37. It’s like an hour less which is pretty good. And I’d rather do more of the journey at the start and get out of the way. So that’s good. Yeah, sunset pretty quickly. Just this much left. This glided over to that side. It’s pretty much gone over there. But yeah, time to drop the bike off now. And yeah, cheers guys. [Music] So guys, I’m just at Agens right now. Shout out for making this curry. It’s amazing. And he’s been a really good host so far. And yeah, he’s um a mate of someone I met solo traveling. So very random one, but perfect. Let’s go. And so guys, we are off. We’ve just left the apartment. Thanks to those legends that hosted me, even though they only just met me from since I was in Malta. But yeah, leaving the apartment. Got Flemy’s flip flops on. I’m going to give them to him at the end of the day. And then yeah, boom. Time to go to the beach. Nice. So guys, it’s just as like a lunch type thing. Had a pizza with like sausage and egg on it. Was so weird. It’s like a breakfast pizza. So I thought I might as well get that. And now I’m going to go to Oak Berry and get an acai bowl because yeah, I wanted to get something savory before. Asai bowl cuz it’s pretty sweet. Yeah, I love getting these especially when I’m on holiday. They’re nice. So guys, I’m out with Flemmy having the this burger that was recommended from Burgers Inc., the Hell’s Kitchen burger. It’s time to give it a try. I can’t pick it up with one hand. Let’s give it a go. So guys, I’m at the airport now. Flemmy dropped me off, which is really nice. And he bought me dinner again, which is crazy. like it’s got and then a drink like a Maltese drink which is all right. It’s really bitter. Um tastes a bit like an Iron Brew from the UK. But yeah, um my flight’s delayed by 35 minutes.