We spent a week on tour with Miriam’s choir, the Phoenix Singers.

View from Valletta across the harbour towards Senglea, one of the “Three Cities”

An enforced coach stop at some tourist shops turned into a photographic treat: the site was a former air base, with buildings to match

Steps at the entrance to the fortress city of Valletta

An impromptu concert by the Phoenix Singers at a historic church in Mosta

Statue of the Virgin Mary outside the historic church in Mosta

Phoenix Singers concert in Mdina Cathedral

Phoenix Singers concert in a church on the island of Gozo

A balcony overlooking the harbour at the fishing port of Marsaxlokk

Church behind the harbour at Marsaxlokk

View across the harbour at Marsaxlokk

St Agatha’s Tower: one of numerous forts around the coast of this much fought over territory

Enjoying the scenery at Little Arnier, on the north coast looking across to Comino island

This lizard slowly climbed the wall, over the top and down the other side

St Mary’s Tower on Comino island

The crowds pack around the Blue Lagoon on Comino island

Santa Marija Battery: this side of Comino island was completely deserted (except for me)