Why I Made a Free Guide for People Who’ve Never Been to Gozo
By Kerry Gaffney | Last Updated 22/06/2026
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I get the same handful of questions on repeat. Not from regular readers, who know the island better than some locals by the time they’ve read a few of these posts, but from people who’ve just found Gozo for the first time. Sometimes it is because of a show they’ve seen, liked the scenery and discovered it was Gozo, not Greece or France. More often, its because they have booked a boat trip to Comino that also includes a handful of hours on Gozo.
Questions like, is it safe? What language do people speak? Is this even part of the EU? And, more often than you’d think, some version of “wait, that was actually filmed here?”, and I think I’ve missed my boat trip meeting time, how do I get across to Malta?
Good questions. Sensible ones, even. So I put the answers, and a lot more, into one free guide
Who it’s for
Mostly, people who are coming to Gozo without quite knowing what Gozo is. If you’ve already read fifteen of my posts and own a Gozo-shaped keyring, this one probably isn’t going to surprise you. But if Malta was the booking and Gozo is the add-on nobody fully explained, this is built for you.
What’s actually in it
The basics that don’t get covered properly anywhere else, written by someone who lives here rather than someone who visited for a long weekend in 2019. A few examples:
Yes, it’s safe. Genuinely, properly safe, in the way that surprises people who’ve only ever read generic Mediterranean travel advice. English is an official language here, alongside Maltese, so you will not struggle to be understood. And yes, Gozo is part of the EU, since it’s part of Malta, which joined back in 2004.
As for what’s been filmed here: more than most people expect, and going back further than most people expect. The Madame Blanc Mysteries is the one most readers already know about, filmed here, and on Malta, in full rather than the France the show pretends at. But Game of Thrones used the island before the Azure Window collapsed, and productions have been coming here since the 1950s.
Beyond that, it covers getting here, getting around, where to swim, what to eat, and enough of the practical stuff that you won’t spend your first day googling things you could have read on the ferry over.
Why it’s free, and why it’s not just sitting on the site
It’s free because it should be. The kind of person who needs this guide is exactly the kind of person who hasn’t decided yet whether Gozo is worth the extra effort, and putting a price tag in front of that decision felt backwards.
It’s only available to newsletter subscribers, partly because that’s how most useful things on the internet work now, and partly because if you’re interested enough to want the guide, you’re probably interested enough to want the odd update about what’s new on Gozo, including the things only newsletter subscribers hear about first.