The Great Siege of Malta
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- The last of our small country tour is Malta. I did a bunch of videos here, and this is sort of the foothold for them all.
It was so much fun, and such a beautiful island to film on. I had a great time here. Thanks so much to my sister for visiting to help keep up our sanity and convince me to rent nice places to stay.
Also, yes, I know it's a bhad opening joke. I'm aware. Terrible humour told dryly is what gets me up in the morning.
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@Rare Earth
Speaking of "Gates" and religious fearmongering of absolution...
Talk about a convincing visual aid.... LOL...!!!
Long ago the "Gates Of Hell" Rodin sculpture was on tour in the city of Omaha Nebraska...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell
A co-worker was reading the Newspaper and I happened to see the article plastered on the 1st page of the "Living" section...
How funny, now that I think of it...
The actual gates were a permanent fixture in the church standing 6 meters high, 4 meters wide and 1 meter deep (19.7×13.1×3.3 ft) and contains 180 figures. The figures range from 15 centimeters (6 in) high up to more than one meter (3 ft). Several of the figures were also cast as independent free-standing statues. What was on display at the Joselyn Art Museum was digitally reproduced on giant canvases to actual scale, and the actual top adorning statues that could travel...
It was HUGE, It had to convince after-all... LOL...!!!
I also became a fan of Alex Grey:
www.alexgrey.com
He does beautiful full-scale transcendental paintings of human beings...
His life work, he wants to, or has built a museum to house all of his works to be seen as mirrors in it's various forms of energy...
He was the guy that did the artwork for the band "Tools" stage decor...
Then there is Salvadore Dahli... There is an actual musem near Tampa Florida...
Been there twice, took the guided tour last time...
I found out on the 2nd trip that I had bought posters of his 2 crowning achievements on the 1st visit and had them laminated...
Like Rodin's sculptures, Dhalis paintings are gigantic...
One of my favorites is of a Gallion (ship) morphed into a faceless womans body walking out of the ocean onto the beach...
I wish you would do an episode on Cyprus
I hope you would tell the story from both sides as you do with all your videos.
I swear this guy can narrate the phonebook and I'd watch it.
For real tho
True!
Agreed.
Me too. And yet, instead he seeks out both the horrors and beauties of our world, and presents them to us, splayed open like a spatchcocked turkey.
He could narrate paint drying and I’d still watch it
As a Maltese citizen who is studying history I approve.
I approve of the story but I was a little surprised he mentioned the 500 galley slaves forced to row on the crusader side (some of whom were temporarily drafted to serve but werent trusted to fight) but not the roughly 10,000 slave soldiers and "servants" in the ottoman army. That's a bit like calling out the union army for having a few indentured servants but forgetting to mention the legions of slaves in the confederacy
@@arthas640 this channel does give a lot of info but if you see his videos about certain topics you'll start to see a certain patern.
Not that it ruins anything but it's good to know when to take a little more salt on what's said here.
@@arthas640
You mean the Ottoman "slave soldiers" who were highly educated by the state, could conduct business dealings on the side, often earned a modest wage, and could attain high administrative positions of political and/or military power? You mean those "slaves"?
- Stephan Conermann / Gül Şen (eds.): Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire, pg 17, 19
Don't get me wrong, these people were absolutely forced to fight and work for the Ottomans, but don't for a second compare the Ottoman system to the barbaric chattel slavery used by Europeans.
It's tiny and beautiful place with great people! ❤ 🤍 🇲🇹
@@cometmoon4485We treated white slaves better than they treated Muslim slaves.
Am Maltese, can confirm what you said.
Also Malta had a key role in WW2 as well and for similar reasons.
Malta poopepeoeopooopeopeepee 😒😥
I lived in Malta for a few months, absolutely wonderful place
Right ... strategic location, unsinkable aircraft carrier
Malta had key roles in the Napoleonic wars and in the suppression of the pirates of North Africa. One would be hard pressed to find a century in which Malta did not have a key role.
My Grandad was one of the hurricane pilots who fended off the Italians and Germans during WWII. Never been to Malta, but I aim to one day.
5:28 RIP Pigeon :(
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I swear that Rare Earth gets better with each production. A different take on an old story. Top notch scripting. Excellent narration. The camera work mimics a high cost budget in a good way. Keep up the great work and watch the numbers grow.
I am maltese
and winston Churchill once said " malta an unsinkable aircraft carrier " and he was so right
Globohomo is about to sink it now.
I loved seeing the Hospitaller sites in Malta and Rhodes when I went to them about 5 years ago, I found the story of the knights and the fortifications they built fascinating, and I just had to learn more about them. In a couple of weeks I'll start my PhD, studying the role of chivalry in the crusading movement.
Dont waste your time
Sorry
@Jack Frost
As-salaamu alaikum, brother. May Allah grant you and your family long, peaceful lives.
Isn't it interesting that it was said that nothing was better known than the great siege of 1565 -- yet today, many of us probably don't even know about it. Just goes to show how great events can leave our cultures' thoughts relatively quickly.
2:22 Apparently James Bond was on Malta at the same time as you.
I looked carefully at 2:22 I couldn't see James Bond
liteand fluffy the carsign
I am very tempted to change my CZcams avatar to a crusader and posting nothing but lengthy discursive essays about sausage.
That way when somebody asks you "What's the deal with the guy who makes super-long posts underneath your videos," you'll be able to answer with: "The guy with the crusader avatar? Yeah, he posts the wurst comments..."
I will ignore you .
Why haven't you done this yet?
Do it
“The best modern equivalent would probably be the prominent Saudis of Al Quaeda”
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Well, good to see the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree on scrotal volume. Boy will that line piss off some.
Well he is not wrong...
@@stephenrichey8487 I mean he is right that Al Quaeda is a Saudi sponsored group.
@@stephenrichey8487 so are you saying the crusaders never committed massacres. Even the orthodocs christians they came to save they massacred, raped, billaged and yet you think the knights were saintss.
Open your eyes bro
@@stephenrichey8487 really? "They started it" is your excuse? Putting aside the fact that there are centuries apart between the religous conquests of Islam and the crusades (most wars between christians and muslims at the time were about the leader's power, as most wars are, with the religous part being an afterthought at best), how dpes that explain the massacres? Were the jews who were slaughtered a part of Islam? Were the druze to blame? The orthodox christians? The samaritans?
Even for the time, the crusaders were considered cruel. They killed entire communities (especially of jews muslims and samaritans), they ate captives during ths first crusade, they subjegated the population to their dumb feudal system, and their hunting made some of the most prominent animals in the holy land to go extinct. We have books from people who lived both in the crusaders' territories and in the islamic territories. Guess which one was the one they didn't want to live in?!
Yes, all parties were cruel at the time, but the crusades ate remembered as especially cruel for a reason. And you can't blame the muslims for that, when even the fight that started it, between the eastern roman empire and the seljuks, ended decades before, and no thanks to the catholics, mind you.
@@stephenrichey8487 Sorry, but I am not going to give them the justification for starting the crusades either. Again, it was suppoused to be a "counterattack" against the seljuks, who threatened the byzantine empire. But the call for help from the bizantines came decades before the first crusade, and was by now irrelevant. Not to mention, that threat was about Anatolia, not the holy land, that was taken from the eastern romans centuries before. And even then, said holy land was never a christian land. It was ruled by christians, but most of the citizens were jews and samaritans (the muslim population grew mostly due to some land reforms in the 8th and 9th centuries. That, and the fact that the samaritans were actually abused by every single conquerer of the land until the british came in the 20th century). At the time, those populations actually helped the muslim conquerers against the bizantine, because whatever you want to say about the second-class citizenship in the muslim world - and THERE IS alot to say - it was better than the christian rule, that its treatment to religous minorities was sonehow even more aweful, sometimes forbidding religous rituals from certain kinds altogether.
And besides, the call for help was not suppoused to be more than some extra troops. It became a crusade because the pope gave (and got, probably) false information about the state of the holy land and its christians, and because he wanted to reunite the orthodox and catholic churches. The counterattack apologetics are flimsy at best, thin as straws at worst, and based over a false feeling of a christian and roman entitlement to a land that didn't even want them in the first place.
It's always amusing to read the small observations you put on the credits in regards to you and your wife. It's cute and lovely. It also serves as a reminder that yourselves out there are as much humans as I am.
Were you put in the stocks for the “crime” of comparing the second-born sons of European nobility joining the Knights Templar to Saudi royals joining Al-Qaeda? Because that was a brilliant comparison that unfortunately could very well piss off the wrong autocrat somewhere and get you in big trouble.
Yes it's so brilliant true !
Stephen Richey yeah, I saw your posting and I say again, religion poisons everything. The crusades were every bit as much of a waste of life and treasure as the modern equivalent, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the never-ending war between Christians and Muslims continues.
Give me a persuasive argument that anything would be meaningfully different today if the knights at Malta had failed and Muslims had dominated Europe instead of Christians.
Stephen Richey you make so very many assumptions, not least of which is that there is some special property of Christianity that means enlightenment can only flourish in a Christian environment but not in an Islamic environment. I would like to make a detailed point by point rebuttal of your post but my thumbs will probably be masses of blisters if I try to match the quantity of your output (I am honestly impressed with the sheer length of your comment, as I say my thumbs can’t take that much typing) and also I should have been asleep an hour ago...
In a nutshell, the Christians that have adopted the “western” ideals that you laud have only done so after being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a more modern way of thinking by secular people. I was raised in an anabaptist tradition (Mennonite, but I am also very familiar with Amish and Brethren cults) and I have seen first hand that many contemporary Christians hold nearly identical views toward women, toward minorities, toward their enemies as Muslims who follow Sharia law. I see no meaningful difference between the backwardness of a modern Amish man and a modern radical Muslim. Yes, the Muslims espouse violence while the Amish condemn it but that is only because Christians believe Christianity has won and don’t feel oppressed; a thousand years ago Christians were perfectly happy to espouse violence against the infidels.
Why do you think that Islam would not have continued to advance science, mathematics, medicine, and literature as it had already been doing at the time of the crusades? I see no reason why the renascence, enlightenment, age of exploration, industrial revolution etc etc could not have happened under an Islamic belief system instead of under a Christian belief system.
My fundamental argument is that we are all predisposed to think we live in the best of all possible worlds, and if Islam was the dominant religion around the world, and you were raised in that culture, you would believe that that culture was the best and you would be unable to imagine anything that you would consider better.
Here is an easier hypothetical: if you had been kidnapped as an infant and raised in a devout Sharia law following Islamic family and never told about your birth parents but instead raised as a full blooded child of the family, then don’t you think you would believe in Islam just as devoutly as you believe in Christianity?
@@stephenrichey8487 You know nothing of Islam, and i say this as a muslim. You accuse Islam of dogma, and there is truth to that in many parts of the world, yet you yourself are also very much a victim of dogma, by blindly defending your religion with little to no facts.
Islam doesn't dictate that uncles rape their 13 year old nephews, Islam doesn't dictate primitive tribes cutting off womens' clitoris, Islam doesn't dictate that women have no voting rights, in the same way that Christianity doesn't dictate it's popes' rape children. (You probably won't believe this so here's a link from a western source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases )
Don't judge the religion by it's radical believers. Read the book instead of blindly believing in whatever western self-serving propaganda you've been fed over the years, since the 9/11 attacks you seem to accuse the entire Islam of. (Also I'd like to mention the origins of today's islamic radical terrorist groups can be tied to the US, since all the way back when it funded and trained the locals in afghanistan against the soviets.)
Downplaying the "opponent" and praising yourself aside, but don't be so dumb as to think Islam *deliberately chose* to be what it is today. I shouldn't have to say that there are logical and encompassing reasons to Islamic nations lagging behind, including but not limited to the burning of the library of Baghdad, being colonized and exploited by the westerners' "tradition of logic, reason, freedom, democracy, and individual human dignity" you so praise.
Stephen Richey my mistake for assuming that you are Christian. I misinterpreted your position to be saying that “Because Christianity is the one true and correct religion therefore Western civilization achieved the pinnacle as manifested in the modern world.” Is your position instead that “Despite its minor shortcomings, we owe our wonderful Western civilization as we have it today, to the efforts of Christianity to preserve and shepherd the seeds of civilization planted by the Greeks and Romans and bring them to the full flowering we have today.” (Yeah my phraseology is crap, but I have to get to work and I don’t have time to fuss this, hopefully you get my gist.)
If I’m now closer to your meaning then indeed I was advancing the wrong argument.
Let me try again: yes, Islam is a terrible religion, but so is Christianity, especially at the time of the Middle Ages. We got to where we are today *despite* the fundamental flaws of Christianity, not because medieval monks (thinking they were carrying out Gods will) acted to preserve all the important important stuff.
Yes, if Islam had spread across Europe then it is entirely possible that Western civilization would never have arisen, but that nearly didn’t happen anyway, it was only a series of fortunate actions and coincidences that managed to (more or less accidentally) preserve Greek writings and foster enlightenment thinking.
My most important point remains that there is nothing especially *special* about where we are today. As an atheist I understand that there is no God directing our actions, no benevolent creator who set the stage for the unfolding of the inevitable human drama, there is no outside force that favors any particular outcome(s) one way or other. There are no moral truths, no absolutes of “good” or “bad” behavior, no abstract scale upon which to measure and judge a culture as doing the “right” or “wrong” thing.
All that you hold up as being worthwhile of Western Civilization is only worthwhile because you live in that world and you like it.
Yes, if Islam had “won” the crusades, and spread around the world, and today everyone was living under Sharia law then I personally would judge that a poor outcome and I am glad it didn’t happen, but my feelings are irrelevant, there is nothing to say that that would be a “worse” outcome. Also, and this is my original point again, why not allow for the possibility that Islam could have evolved and changed just as Christianity evolved and changed, and that everything that has gone “right” under Christianity could just as easily have gone the same way under Islam? You point out (correctly enough) that Islam was a bit stagnant at the time of the crusades, that they weren’t continuing to advance in the areas where they had a head start; perhaps if they had had the resources of Europe and weren’t distracted by warfare with competing ideologies then they might have continued to grow and advance.
Oh, and one final suggestion: get off the fence. There are no gods, nothing supernatural, nothing beyond the physical, observable universe. (Yes, there could be infinite possibilities outside our observable universe but they are completely irrelevant because they can have absolutely no interaction with this universe). Once you accept that there is nothing special about us and this time and place, then you can look rationally at the world and make sense of it.
The Last Fortress of God. That actually gave me chills, in a good way.
Great piece. I thought you'd be talking about the siege in WW2, which is still in living memory... So, alternate title: "The lesser known greater known siege of Malta."
Or: "Hey from this angle the fortress looks like the Millennium Falcon"
I think I was thinking of the WW2 one, too, but it has been several years since I last read Pynchon's novel, V.
Nope, the title is perfect. The siege of Malta by the Ottomans, relatively speaking was of higher importance than the WW2 one was. It was the siege that came to mind first.
Malta is like the Armageddon plane. Lots of very importiant battles happen there.
Its wierd to say post WWII but the sixteenth century war is more importiant.
Keep doing what you're doing Evan.
I always love the content you create, Saturday morning I look forward to the notification popping up on my screen. I always watch to the end and I love the easter egg credits, I wonder how many people don't realize the credits at the end tell a bit of a back story to every episode? Keep up the good work, eh!?
Thanks. I never thought to read them assuming they were usual run of the mill credits.
@@highjinx6519 You should go back and scroll through to the end of some you have already watched and give them a read ;-)
Thanks for covering my great country , keep up the quality videos :)
I finally caught up with the series again. :)
Thank you for your videos. As always they are presenting us with an interesting view of the world we live in. Keep it up!
Your scripts are always sooooo good, and so is your camera work. Great job!
Beautiful, I live here on and off and it's truly stunning. Ironic though that 90 percent of the footage is recorded in Gozo, and only previously few scenes in Malta. Valetta and it's harbour would have made for some grand scenery, wht was it chosen not to include or make it? Still loved the video!
I'm hoping they did a few more videos and that's why they're not showing it here. I bet drone shots of Valetta would be incredible
I lived there for five years beatiful place and very good people.
We lost the card of footage I took in Valletta, so I don't have much from there. I only went in for the one day, as well, as I really didn't like having to navigate the city when so much else was available and relatively crowdless.
I do love the city, though. Beautiful place to be.
Michael DK a channel called No Plan I believe has a video about Malta that has some great drone footage, not 100% if the place you’re referring to is one of them but you are correct, the footage he does have is beautiful.
Damn right about the crusader avatar...
6:10 Did Jean Valette also take a lot of drugs and run naked through the streets like the Koni 2012 founder?
You mean, did he have a mental breakdown and run through the streets naked and get media shamed for it?
I've been hoping you'd cover this for quite some time. You're a saint and a scholar, my man.
Man, your videos just keep getting better and better! The ending cut gave me chills!
I need to visit malta one day
Consistently the best channel on YT. Sooner or later National Geographic are going to come calling. Really enjoying these European episodes!
Yiu guys should also check out OverlySarcastic Productions they also covered the Knights of Malta, Blue would be very jealous seeing as how beautiful Malta looks
I have been following you for well over a year and I just now discovered you are Chris Hadfield's son. Good on you for creating amazing content. Love following it.
Excellent !! Very well done. I felt as if I were there.
More, please !!
did anyone else quickly look at the thumb nail and think Millennium Falcon?
yeah
anyone remember "the Italian man who went to malta" animation from like 12 years ago? sooo funny
I just saw your dad in an advert before this video, I love coincidences :)
@@FallbackNkillEm Chris Hadfield; its right in the credit as producer
C R im not gonna lie I believed you for a second. That sounds like the kind of thing that’s so weird you can’t even believe someone would make it up
@@sebastianduran2022 I swear to you, Chris Hadfield was on a commercial before I watched this one starring his son xD
I visited here in February this year. Wish I went a few months later to catch you guys. Was so hyped to hear you announce you were going here!
Recently visited the country, it has a vivid history from the Bronze Age to the Modern era, and as a fan of history, the fact that it is steeped in history isn’t a surprise considering that its location.
Rare Earth, one of the Rare channels I give a thumbs up too before even watching !
Kings and General literally released a video about the siege the day after your video. It definitely shows how insane the knights’ last stand was
Fascinating story and breathtaking shots. Your narration style is very interesting. And i just realized how difficult to pronounce the name of channel is for a little french-speaker like me ahaha
Nice video. I always enjoy the last four sentences of your ending credits the most. Everyone thanks you for the reminder
Its great to see my home country get the rare earth treatment from one of the best storytellers on CZcams. I love seeing my favorite youtubers making vids about Malta.
So have any of the utubers got it right yet?
Your narration of history is refreshing
Love the way you can talk an ant out of a sugar cube! Thanks for the good work!
Excellent. The “stocks” clip at the end capped it off well!
I know this is completely irrelevant, but this was shot in Mdina, which served as the shooting place for King's Landing in Game of Thrones' season 1.
Paulo Alexandre just to clarify, the narrator is actually at Fort St Lucian. And while there are parts of it shot in Mdina, there are also lots of the Cittadella, Victoria in Gozo, including the aerial shots of the thumbnail.
5:20 The reinforcements of the king of Spain arrived . I wonder if you would tell that. I saw a summary of Lepanto without any mention of Filip II, D. Alvaro de Bazan, John of Austria and Spain...
Enjoying the drama of your Oration-Nation. Thank you! 💖😎
Omigosh somewhere I've actually been :D This is cool! Very cool to see Mdina in there.
Finally reviewed a place that I've been to, it's weird seeing all those places again, been a year since Malta for me
If anyone is interested I highly recommend the book (best in audio version) called the great siege by Ernle Bradford, my goodness what them knights accomplished with the help of the Maltese people is almost supernatural.
This is the feeling I get after watching many Rear Earth videos:
Humans, being a social animal have an extra basic need to fulfill if they want to survive. Other humans.
And some of them decided to see those humans as cattle.
Fantastic video Rare Earth! I’m hoping artistic bad boy Caravaggio and his “Beheading of John The Baptist” painting are next in this Malta series.
Omg. I just realized there's a snippet at the end of every video. I have to watch all of them again.........cool!
Should do a part B about how the German's/Italian's laid siege of Malta in WW-2 and by the British holding on, the Axis forces could never successfully get sufficient supplies to Rommel.
It's a mith. Axis supplies to N.Africa arrived with a very high percentage of success, and, of the ones lost, the great majority had been sunk by submarines, that were not based on Malta. Actually to use those same submarines to supply Malta had probably been detrimental to the Allied eforts to stop Axis convoys to N. Africa.
Thank You for Your Video. Entertaining Informative
Love this channel!
I'm fascinated by your channel. I am also fascinated with the story of Everett Ruess.
I got to visit Malta in 2004. I cannot recommend it enough. Beautiful country, rich history, & friendly people.
Little correction, the island was given to the knights by the Spanish crown.
Due to pressure from Pope Clement, who instigated it. They were given by Spain, but only due to Papal request.
I believe the Maltese language is based on Arabic as spoken in Medieval Sicily.
The crusades... what a GREAT idea!
In this video you failed to mention the greatest miracle of all. After some months of siege, the Turks managed to breach the castle walls. As they stormed the opening one knight jumped into the breach and held it for several minutes. When help got there they found the knight badly wounded but still fighting with a dozen men dead and dieing around him. That knight was the leader of their order, Sir Jean, and he was over 70 years old at the time. ONE TOUGH BASTARD!
Well, Sebastiano Venier was 75 at the time of the Battle of Lepanto and, by all acoounts, he fought in armor alongside his men that day.
Books written about historic events are called historical fiction
I was trying figure out why the city looks so familiar, google revealed this is where King's Landing of Game of Thrones was filmed. RIP Ned
No, Kings Landing was filmed in the city of Dubrovnik, in Croatia.
@@soundsleep5470 if we are going to be technical, Game of thrones king's landing, red keep and certain gates were filmed in Croatia, Spain, Ireland and Malta, especially Malta when in the first season. Thanks for keeping me on my toes ;)
You kiding? One of my favourite channels just aired AN episode about the siege of Malta!!!!
honestly, i love your stuff and i am jeaslous of your lifestyle. you are without a doubt my favourite yt channel and i wish i could travel the world and meet so many people of different cultures like you do. keep up the great work!
Given a choice and paraphrasing Mark Twain . . . " I'd prefer heaven for the weather but would love hell for the better company."
Thank you for telling the greatest story from our great country. Grazzi.
Do you think you'll do one on the Siege of Masada?
You and Kings and Generals uploaded a video on the Siege of Malta in the same week :O It's a Miracle?
Okay, this is freaky. I swear this isn't the first time I've heard someone say that "Rare Earth" and "Kings and Generals" uploaded a video on the same topic at the same time. Deja vu on my part, perhaps?
I really enjoy your videos- my favorite part is “don’t take his word for it”. always good to remind people to research
Excellent.
Great video.
Kings and Generals uploaded a video about the same battle a day after you. You provide the big picture and the human/religious perspective, they fill in the battle details that you skipped. Perfect coincidence and complement. :)
Good chunk of my family emmigrated from Malta to the United States after the Bread Tax.
The cathedral at 1:51, does any one know where it is? Or what its name is? It looks beautifull
ta pinu sanctuary in gozo
So interesting well done
Duude I was on Malta for a family holiday this summer, and now you tell me you're there.
Personally I'd love you to do a video on Hajar Qim or the ruins on Gozo, but It'd probably be quite similar to some of your other videos on ancient peoples
beautifully done
I like the crusader comment in the credits, too true.
If any interest in firearms Forgotten Weapons was there about a year ago now. He had a couple videos talking about their gun laws and also their fortification with the big guns
The channel Kings and Generals just uploaded a video with the same topic too
Always excellent.
Malta is a beautiful country with a unique history. I collect older currency and Maltese pre € money has some cool history.
So you've finished this batch of countries? Which countries will you do next?
Excellent PRESENTATION. 👍👍👍👍😜
1:44 where is this place??? I have been in Malta for one week and i didnt see that
That's Ta' Pinu Basilica in Gozo
you should do stuff on Portugal. Lots of content in that little piece of heaven
You don't hear much about Coimbra these days... and Porto is always a great place to drink away the day in the caves.
Thanks dude, you rock
Bravo! A very eloquent narrative about the famous Siege of Malta in 1565!
Did you go to the Blue Lagoon? I was there in February and it was boo-tee-full.
No we tend to avoid tourist sites unless there's a story to them. This is pretty full time work when we're on the road.
But I have been in the past, and yes, it is lovely.
Lived in Malta for the past 11 years. It's a pretty cool place to be. Not literally. It's too hot most of the time haha
Brilliant !
wasn't that all filmed on Gozo?? I am pretty sure it was
5:27 instead I want to talk about the dead pigeon.
As a Maltese person this makes me very happy to see😄
Beautiful video
Hey, can you premiere these videos, since you have a specific release time
I'm almost always only ready in the final minutes. It is hard to make these weekly with enough time to spare to have an elaborate release.
Brilliant.
To this very day, the Knights of Malta, remain as one of the most exclusive and powerful of secret societies on the planet.
I'd love to hear a lecture about walled cities like this city and say Antioch and say Strasburg and Covington Kentucky they're a sort of duplex or La Maisonette it would be very interesting for someone to go into explain how places like Constantinople all these walled cities they have an interesting sort of connection and construction similarity
How much time goes into quotes? You guys get your hands on delightfully fitting ones.
I am half maltease , what a magical island !