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Great idea to travel from place to place on such a good budget although I was a little stunned at your admission of having not a single Euro on you until finding the atm.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Thanks, Charles! I don't carry cash! 🤣 Lesson learned for sure.

Valletta, Malta was so beautiful! Thanks again for another fun and interesting trip with us! I'm looking forward to Greece! We Americans will let that one slide. 😃

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Thanks, Fredwina! Malta was a great start, let's see what Greece has to offer 😁 HAHAHA It's not my fault!

I was in Valletta from March 31 till April7th and the weather was exactly like you are experiencing every day! Truly perfect weather!

@TravelWithBen121

13 күн бұрын

Great!

Lol, the current City Gate is younger than you! The one before the current gate was built in 1964 - looking at pictures of it now, I agree that it was a horrendous piece of architecture, but as it's the gate of my childhood, I still feel a bit of nostalgia. It was demolished in 2011 and building the current gate took till 2014. So much controversy about the gate! Also, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the Cathedral you were at when you found the closed door.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Are you serious, Gwen? 🤣 I totally thought I was walking seeing the ancient city gate! That's funny but it is beautiful! I was confused about the cathedral but the map said that's it and I tried to walk around the whole place but no open doors! Thanks for watching 😁

Thanks

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Wow! Thank you, Lim!

Woohoo for 5K Enjoy your travels. Malta looks beautiful.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Thanks, Akemi! It is beautiful 😁

72 degrees sounds so hot. Around 22 degrees in centigrade

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

It’s very hot for me, Matt 😂 I haven’t had over 60 for months!

What a great idea! Can’t wait to see where all you get to go so cheaply.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Let's see what happens, Pamela! Thanks for watching 😁

Hi Ben great to see you in my country Malta!

@TravelWithBen121

26 күн бұрын

It’s beautiful! 🤩

If it is Sunday, that’s the reason for closed shops no matter the cruise ship. No negotiation with Maltese when it is any festa or Sunday, it will be closed, which us good 😅😊

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

It was a Sunday, Marina 🤣 I'm surprised the locals shops and restaurants didn't take advantage of the cruise ship passengers visiting for the day!

@marinaborg2637

Ай бұрын

@@TravelWithBen121 forget it 😆😆 Sunday funday and applies to every festa too 😄😄 still 80s style here, welcome to Malta, next time take more days, you will enjoy ( avoid June- Sept )

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

@@marinaborg2637 Thanks! I will go back one day 😁 (I will avoid June-Sept)

Wow 26 pounds for a room..... still nicer than New York and less expensive. this looks like a lovely little trip well done and thanks for the share!

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

HAHA I talk about New York in an upcoming video 🤣 It was a great trip! Thank you for watching 🙏

Yes a great idea for a video series. View was amazing. Water was beautiful. I guess they didn't want you to lose that key. Haha.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Thanks, Carol! I agree, beautiful views and clear water. I definitely didn't lose the big key 🤣 Thank you for watching early!

Love your content. Keep them coming.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Thank you, Evelyn! You made my day 😁

What a great idea for a video series! Malta is beautiful. Looking forward to our next 4 destinations! Safe travels, Ben (just in case there isn't a nun on every flight 😂) 🙏

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

It's gonna be an interesting few days! Malta was great, definitely a good start. HAHAHA The nun helped everyone relax 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for watching early, Matthew!

Malta is definitely a place I’d like to visit. Thanks for the tour.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Malta is beautiful, Franelle! Go if you can 😁 Thank you for watching!

You need to come back! Malta isn't just Valletta. It's a small island with big country energy. You need at least 5 days to do it any justice. Let's not forget to mention the second island Gozo which deserves at least a day trip but even more. You could have also easily hopped onto a ten minute ferry to the 3 cities and seen a bit more from there. Would've been doable even in a single day. Regarding your question whether Maltese young people stay or leave. Let me put it this way - Malta has a strong employment sector. It needs to tap into foreign nationals for both skilled and unskilled labour and has a well developed finance, IT and industrial sector. Unskilled labour is not very well paid here - that's the reality. But some young people do leave, not out of lack of opportunity mostly (though to be fair depends what opportunities you're looking for), but because there's a world out there that they want to experience. And yes, Malta is also small and kind of isolated, so if you want to have the mainland at your fingertips or drive into wide open spaces of nature, Malta is not your place for geographical reasons.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the information! A very interesting place 😊 I enjoyed it very much!

Very quaint indeed

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Right, Gerri!

This is so cool. What a great idea! Sounds like something I would like to do. 😁

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Thanks, Terri! Go for it, have your own adventure 😁

A fun detail would be telling us how many miles you walked each day.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Good idea Ella, I'd like to know too 🤣

Hey, Ben ! I have friends from Taiwan who own homes here. Don't see how a busy-minded person can get a good life here. You are probably one of the best walker I know. I used to belong to the same club as Larry Young, silver medalist in Olympic Games. He caught me on the 14th mile in a marathon !

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Your friends are lucky people, David! And probably rich 🤣 Malta is definitely a slow paced place, an active person would get bored I think but it really is beautiful!

@david1234lee

Ай бұрын

@@TravelWithBen121 Ben, many Taiwanese have bought homes overseas just in case China decides to take back the island by force. The thing is, as you said, this place is just too slow-paced !

😱😱 5 countries in 5 days?? You are so fit… and young 🤣. I’d probably crash on the first night after walking so much and miss all my flights for the rest of the week! 🤣🤣. I really like this place! Love the quaint streets and the buildings with their colourful doors! I actually like the building that you stayed in. It has a nice and cosy courtyard. I love courtyards. I think it would look even nicer if it’s upgraded a little and maintained. What can I say - I just love old buildings 😬 Thanks for the video!

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

It will definitely be quite a challenge, Lim! Let's see what happens 🤣 Malta was beautiful, perfect weather but the first day of the challenge but that will change soon 🤣 Let's see what happens! Thanks again!

@ededwards5961

Ай бұрын

G’Day Ben. Malta was never on my “to see” list but that has changed. I loved the vibe of the place . It didn’t seem to have the craziness of Italy. I think you need to add a Ben’s Graffiti rating which seems like it would have been quite low there. I’m with Lim I would be so stuffed from all the walking you do. Your 5 day challenge would take me 10.

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

@@ededwards5961 I definitely agree with you Ed, Malta is a lot more relaxed than Italy. And it's low on the graffiti rating! 🤣 Thanks for watching early!

📣 WOOOW! Very good video! Thanks for sharing this! 👋🏼 I am a Small Struggling Travel Channel and this video really inspire me to up my self and make better content ☺️🎉

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Good luck! 😁

i love how you always travel cheap. Man after my budget. how do you find such cheap flights, do you check all the airlines or is there a site to find them

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

Thanks, Corinne! I will make a video soon talking about how I find cheap flights 😁

@gerrilarsen29

Ай бұрын

Will you just drop into a hotel for the night?

I'm curious, when you bought your plane tickets, did you buy them on the same day? Or did you buy them as you landed at the airport you arrived in daily? Again, so cool! This looks so fun. Malta looks fantastic 🤩

@TravelWithBen121

Ай бұрын

I booked the next flight the night before. So I looked for a flight every night for the next morning 😁 Malta was a great start! Beautiful place.

@territhomas3293

Ай бұрын

It looked like it! ❤️