For the Family
Sandpits the whole family can fall into.
Travelling with children? Malta is one enormous, unfenced playground, and the little ones will be entertained for hours. Supervision very strongly advised.
Start with the island’s signature attraction for younger visitors: the open excavation, nature’s sandpit, only deeper, harder and ringed with reinforcing bar. Toddlers are captivated by the big machines; parents are captivated by keeping toddlers a safe distance from the big machines. It’s quality time for everyone.
There is so much to discover together. Count the cranes on the drive from the airport: a guaranteed nap-delayer. Spot the different colours of hoarding. Collect the little nuggets of fallen render that dot the pavement like seashells. Marvel, as a family, at how quickly the playground at the end of the road became “phase one of a mixed-use scheme.”
Educational, too. Where else can a child watch a building disappear in real time, and learn early that nothing (not the corner shop, not the view, not the patch of green they played on last summer) is ever truly permanent? It’s a lesson that stays with them.
Sandpits the whole family can fall into. Hold hands, stay back from the edge, and make memories that, unlike the surroundings, will last.
