To help us cope with the sadness of saying goodbye to Nana and Papa yesterday, we decided to go on an outing to a new place that had been mentioned to us weeks ago. In the little village of Gharghur, not far from Sliema, is a place called “Top of the World.” Gharghur sits on the edge of the Great Fault, a rift that slices across the middle of Malta and which is marked by a series of walls built by the British, called the Victoria Lines. After a mercifully short bus ride, we walked into the sleepy town of Gharghur, which was mostly deserted, as May is a national holiday (Workers Day) in Malta. The Top of the World didn’t disappoint—we could see both the East and West coasts of Malta, as well as a bit of Comino and Gozo in the distance.

In Gharghur

Top of the World!

With Victoria Lines in the background