Are you stuck for travel ideas this year? If so, one small Mediterranean country may be just up your street - Malta.

From the cosmopolitan and surprisingly Anglophile capital of Valetta, to the other small island of Gozo, there is plenty to see and do on your stay in Malta. Whether you opt to stay in an hotel or even take Malta Villas near the coast.

Valetta is a particularly attractive city and the seafood and other restaurants are a real delight for your taste buds. The shopping is also wonderfully varied and enough to keep even the most hardened shopaholic entirely content.

Weather wise, you can expect a good temperature at pretty much any time of the year. Even during January and February, the lowest average daytime temperature will be around the mid-teens degrees Celsius. During the summer, obviously this will be more like the mid-twenties and into the thirties at times.

Taking self catering villa holidays in Malta is the ideal way to experience that authentic Maltese way of life. It allows you to live as one of the locals by shopping at local markets and sampling the specialities of the country.