Down The Rabat Hole

Day: 258

Towns / Cities Visited: 171

Countries Visited: 30

Steps Taken Today: 12,088

Steps Taken Around the World: 4,201,354

Up and ready for another adventure filled day, we eagerly stepped out the door only to come face to face with a major speed bump to achieving our plans, a flat tyre. It would seem that in our endeavour to find the cart ruts the previous evening, winding through the under-construction roads, we had managed to get something lodged in the tyre, not obvious to the eye, but troublesome enough that it had lost all of its air overnight. Frantically, we called our hire car company to figure out the best course of action. They provided us with the number of the company who does their road side assistance in Malta, and luckily it only took around forty-five minutes for a friendly man to turn up and swap our tyre out for the skinny little spare in the boot. We cared little for appearances though, we were simply pleased that the whole ordeal had only robbed us of around an hour and a half of our time. All was not lost, but we were certainly grateful we had fit the cart ruts in yesterday, even if it did cost us our tyre.

Determined not to waste any more time, we hustled into the car and trundled off, arriving in the town of Rabat just after midday. Like many old towns, Rabat is a veritable rabbit warren of streets, and searching for our first destination proved to be quite the task; we were searching for Saint Paul’s Catacombs, and yet we…