Malta - Rabat: St. Pauls Catacombs

Since we visited Mdina rather quickly, we decided to visit the St. Pauls Catacombs in Rabat. These are just a 10-minute walk away. The museum is hidden in the city center of Rabat. Here you can explore the catacombs where people used to bury their dead. It's a bit creepy! The museum mainly consists of the catacombs themselves, but in the entrance area, you can visit a short exhibition with information boards. Otherwise, there are countless underground tombs to visit, not all of them are accessible, but most of them are. The largest tombs are located near the entrance area, the rest are rather small, quite narrow, and quickly visited. You shouldn't have claustrophobia here. It's eerie to think that dead people were buried here and how pitch dark it must have been without any lighting! We visit some catacombs, but not all of them. There are actually a lot to see and somehow they all look quite similar. The museum is really interesting and definitely worth a visit! You can easily spend a few hours here if you want.

Afterwards, we went in search of something to eat. In one of the so-called party houses, we finally found affordable Maltese food! That was something we had been missing so far. The Maltese cuisine is not very common and when it is, it is simply very expensive. So we were happy to finally try some local food. Luke ordered rabbit, and I ordered a Maltese platter consisting of goat cheese (yuck!), olives, Maltese bread, a type of bruschetta, sausage, dried tomatoes, beans, and a vegetable paste. Both tasted quite good! Luckily we were just eating when it started pouring rain outside. Fortunately, it stopped quickly again and by the time we left, it had already stopped. On our way through Rabat, we bought some delicious Maltese sweets at a stand and our mood improved again ;) By the way, Rabat is also worth seeing and can be wonderfully combined with a visit to Mdina! To escape the weather, we left Rabat and headed to the Aviation Museum.