AVOID MALTA IN 2023 - It's Not What You Think 🇲🇹

So should you come to Malta  in 2023 my answer is NO Also if you want to have a lunch or  dinner near the construction site this is available to you here behind  me like a mini garbage dump here. So whether you want to come here as a tourist or  maybe move to live here I will take you around one of the most popular tourist places but also  a town which hosts most of the foreign workers foreign residents people who moved here who live  here work in Malta so let's start with a tour It's half past

one and this garbage everywhere  on the sidewalks should have been collected by 8:30 in the morning something like that but  it's never collected this time and you can get fined if you leave your garbage and you're  seen by wardens anytime after 7:30-8:00AM I think but then the tracks the garbage  trucks they come much much later for so this garbage spans here the whole day on the  sidewalk and on occasions the smell is quite quite bad this is a tourist spot and we are  in the middle of the summ

er tourist season. As you can see there's just too much traffic  crazy driving is a normal thing here, so buckle up. [Music] let me show you one more interesting thing  when somebody has tiled the pavement the sidewalk with the indoor tiles that you would  probably use for a bathroom so I expect in winter time when it's raining here that a  lot of people are going to get injured here. Also if you want to have a lunch  or dinner near the construction site this is available to you here behind me.

So obviously some genius wanted to put  indoor tiles outdoor on a sidewalk which in winter time when there's a lot of rain here  obviously this will produce many injured people and of course there's also angle taking everyone  and everything towards the street and the traffic. One hugely annoying fact  about anywhere in Malta today is that it's a constant construction site so  anywhere you go around Malta be the smaller places be the bigger places be the tourist spots it's  always under construc

tion noise, pollution dust, everything that goes together in a place  that's turned into a construction site. But of course there is also good news after  two months of nobody cleaning the streets finally they started to clean the streets so  at least now there's not the abundance of trash and garbage that we use to witness every day  throughout July until the beginning of August. Good thing about August is that we had like 10  great days of really not so hot weather windy, nice with some air be

cause usually the August here  is the month with the highest level of humidity and you can barely breathe outside. So that was a  fine thing that the weather at least was on spot and very, very fresh for the August here in Malta.  Okay what about July? That was a tough month not only nobody was cleaning streets here in Saint  Paul's Bay and Bugibba and Qawra we had a heat wave so because obviously nobody was prepared for  the heat wave around 40 to 50 main cables, power cables around Malta got m

elted the consumption was  too high and it was too hot everybody was using the aces all the time which is normal so then  there were power restrictions around the island and you can see this short video that I did back  then trying to get some food around Bugibba. 37-38 Celsius degrees outside and no cooling  inside the whole area doesn't have electricity For service manual like this foreign [Music] We are going to get two plates of chicken kebab. All right bye bye! We don't have  cash so we can

not pay by credit card. After that the blackout adventure around  the centre we went to Made in Sud Pizzeria because we knew they didn't use  electricity for their pizza oven. So behind me there's a construction site  there's a huge crane I think this is the place in Europe with the biggest number of cranes  and construction sites per capita. Now another problem that we witnessed here this summer is  that suddenly the authorities they wanted to fix half of the roads and streets in Malta do some 

plumbing, pipe laying and so on, so even at this moment during July and August half of the streets  half of the main roads around Malta are closed so going anywhere is quite an adventure and  especially for Tourists if you need to take a bus be sure that you are going to travel the distances  of five kilometres at least one hour and a half or even two hours at a time so this is a huge  pain even if you have car or you rent car. So behind me you can see the works on the new  port here in Saint P

aul's Bay this was a very small port very small marina here just for a  couple of tourist boats and private boats now they're turning it into something bigger uh  all the ferries that go to Gozo or Valletta will probably be able to stop here but during  the season of course this has produced a lot of fresh pollution for the sea so not only  that here sea is polluted by the tuna farms that we have over there in the distance, not  only that is polluted by people throwing all kinds of stuff into th

e sea not only it's  polluted by hotels it probably some of them just drop the sewage straight now we have  these works here we just add on to all of this. [Music] So should you come to Malta  in 2023 my answer is NO. [Music] never-ending construction  site to sum up the things If you're a tourist and you don't mind these  things you know probably you can still have a good time here [Music] obviously not all the people  are sensitive to the same stuff that maybe I am if you plan on moving here a

nd you have  option for some First World countries I mean take the first world country option  definitely. Now, now this place is still a promised land for people coming from a very poor  countries for people for example from India, Nepal certain Asian countries this here  is a promised land because of the way how they organize themselves and how they live it's  usually many of them sharing the same apartment Pushing through the month on a bag of rice  so in this case yeah. Otherwise all the pri

ces are going up the salaries here are not  keeping up. The prices of food are going up I think every two weeks in May I went to Spain  you can check out these videos from Tenerife both the supermarket food and restaurant  food was twice cheaper than here not to mention that public transport was way  way better so that's another thing as well if you come here as a tourist and want to  catch a bus from the airport in total there are I think four lines and they go every hour so  if you miss your b

us by couple of minutes you're gonna wait for an hour now there are plenty  of options when it comes to taxi or app caps like you can get bald or Uber some other as well  they are cheaper but that's it when it comes to public transport you cannot rely on it here even  nowadays with all the streets closed and being full of tourists as well if you go somewhere  by bus just you have to have a lot of patience because the traveling time can vary you know  something that in normal circumstances you sh

ould travel I don't know 20 minutes 40 minutes  you will travel one and a half two hours and so on foreign [Music] There was a pedestrian crossing but they scraped It off so obviously less  pedestrian crossings it's better,I don't know? Phew there was quite bad smell here but let me add a couple of more sentences for the people  that are thinking to move here for example. [Music] Sudden traffic jams such a normal thing here.  Now if you are anywhere from Europe or I don't know Canada, U.S whatev

er there's a Continental  country or a big island and you want to move here and you're a family with kids be aware that there  aren't enough green spaces, there aren't any open football fields, basketball courts at least  functional ones and so it will be quite difficult your kids do not have any safe space to ride the  bicycle because there's just too much traffic here not much of enforcement many accidents happen so  your kids cannot do what they are used to doing for example in their home cou

ntry riding  a bicycle playing outside a lot and so on. So I'm standing here just across the Qawra  primary school and the thing here is that on the other side there is like this uh like a  mini garbage dump here and the thing also is that because here all the garbage is left left on  the streets as well almost every day you can live organic in a transport bag it's I don't know  watermelon peels whatever bones whatever you ate you can leave it on the street until the  truck comes and pick it up

so it attracts a lot of rats so last week when I was passing  here I saw one huge red uh you know checking out the watermelon peels then I went to the just  continued my walking and on the other side there was another vet that scared me he got scared as  well but anyway this is how it goes this is just across the primary school where kids during  the year go to school every day and even here it's not tidy unfortunately and there's  plenty full of rats and who knows what else for me for example i

f I have to choose  this place for a holiday destination I would never do it because I went to  Tenerife which is a Paradise Island it's clean the public transport is flawless  everything is cheaper the peaches are huge here they are either very small they're a couple  of large beaches but they're always overcrowded anybody want to go here during weekend it's  a huge hassle it's just too many people it's getting overcrowded it's already overbuilt they're  not stopping they're building more so th

at's it if you like this video please like And subscribe  tell me in the comments again your thoughts did I miss something should I mention something  else next time and see you next time all the best thank you [Music] foreign