Azure Window collapses in storm

[chorleyhere]

What a shame a real natural attraction for visitors to Gozo/Malta. Glad I have had the experience of walking on the top , clambering on the rocks near the base and taking pictures of the 'window'.

[Sidney1st]

I've only seen it once, nearly 25 years ago.

Glad I've seen it and I didn't realise it was in such a perilous state.

[evensteadiereddie]

That's nature for you...........mind you, I know someone who'll fix them up with a replacement - or two !

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[gandhisflipflop]

I went there in 2013. I didn't realise it was such a famous landmark at the time.

[Clarets4me]

What a shame a real natural attraction for visitors to Gozo/Malta. Glad I have had the experience of walking on the top , clambering on the rocks near the base and taking pictures of the 'window'.

In 1985, with my then G/F. I'd worked 3 jobs as a student for 8 weeks and we booked an " Allocated on arrival " cheap holiday ( from memory £229 each including Acc/flights and car ). We flew to Luqa, Malta and were taken to the top end of the island and left with another couple at the end of a jetty.. Twenty minutes later, a fishing boat turned up hauled us on board, put our luggage in the wheelhouse and took us over to Gozo. On arrival at the harbour, we were thrown the keys to an elderly Mini and told to follow another car...in pitch dark, we followed the car to a newly built villa, split into three. In the morning ,we woke up to glorious sunshine and found we had a fabulous view of the Med and could see the Azure window and the inland sea from our balcony...happy days !! The villa had a kitchen,three bedrooms and was brand new..
Two days later, we'd noticed a strange sound coming from the ground floor appt as we'd been coming and going, and eventually a man emerged on the third day, and hailed us in a rather " plummy " Home Counties accent. He asked us where we were from, and we explained. " How lovely, you must come and join me for a glass this evening, before dinner ! ". The Restaurants were dead cheap in those days, but we thought it'd be rude to refuse, so we eat out at lunchtime and bought some bread and cheese to make for " Dinner ". We wandered downstairs at around 7, and were led in. Our charming host introduced himself as Freddie, explaining that the noise we'd heard was his typewriter, and that he always tried to find somewhere " out of the way ", to work on his final draft.
He'd just opened the 2nd bottle of Champagne, when naively I asked him what sort of books he wrote. He replied " Oh thrillers, I suppose you'd call them, some people seem to like them " It was then it dawned on me that it was Frederick Forsyth, author of " Day of the Jackel " !!

[JohnDearyMe]

In 1985, with my then G/F. I'd worked 3 jobs as a student for 8 weeks and we booked an " Allocated on arrival " cheap holiday ( from memory £229 each including Acc/flights and car ). We flew to Luqa, Malta and were taken to the top end of the island and left with another couple at the end of a jetty.. Twenty minutes later, a fishing boat turned up hauled us on board, put our luggage in the wheelhouse and took us over to Gozo. On arrival at the harbour, we were thrown the keys to an elderly Mini and told to follow another car...in pitch dark, we followed the car to a newly built villa, split into three. In the morning ,we woke up to glorious sunshine and found we had a fabulous view of the Med and could see the Azure window and the inland sea from our balcony...happy days !! The villa had a kitchen,three bedrooms and was brand new..
Two days later, we'd noticed a strange sound coming from the ground floor appt as we'd been coming and going, and eventually a man emerged on the third day, and hailed us in a rather " plummy " Home Counties accent. He asked us where we were from, and we explained. " How lovely, you must come and join me for a glass this evening, before dinner ! ". The Restaurants were dead cheap in those days, but we thought it'd be rude to refuse, so we eat out at lunchtime and bought some bread and cheese to make for " Dinner ". We wandered downstairs at around 7, and were led in. Our charming host introduced himself as Freddie, explaining that the noise we'd heard was his typewriter, and that he always tried to find somewhere " out of the way ", to work on his final draft.
He'd just opened the 2nd bottle of Champagne, when naively I asked him what sort of books he wrote. He replied " Oh thrillers, I suppose you'd call them, some people seem to like them " It was then it dawned on me that it was Frederick Forsyth, author of " Day of the Jackel " !!

That's a great story to have. Thanks for sharing

[Croydon Claret]

Guess who's got a trip to Gozo booked next month...

Millions of years it's been there and it collapses 3 weeks before I go

[Funkydrummer]

Continuity problems for Game Of Thrones ?

[Whitgord]

Managed to see it 3 weeks ago. Knew it was fragile, but now feel very fortunate to have seen it intact.

[Imploding Turtle]

Guess who's got a trip to Gozo booked next month...

Millions of years it's been there and it collapses 3 weeks before I go

Probably hundreds of years. Maybe the low thousands.

But hey, if you're right then you'll be one of the very first people in human history to go there and see absolutely nothing remarkable

[Diesel]

Yet more evidence of the destruction global warming is causing to our planet.

[KeighleyClaret]

Yet more evidence of the destruction global warming is causing to our planet.

Is it?

[Croydon Claret]

Probably hundreds of years. Maybe the low thousands.

But hey, if you're right then you'll be one of the very first people in human history to go there and see absolutely nothing remarkable

No, you're correct. It was quoted as millions of years on one of the news articles I read..

Popular opinion seems to indicate 500 - 1000 years is more likely

So I'll be one of the first people since Blackadder the 1st

[Clarets4me]

Yet more evidence of the destruction global warming is causing to our planet.

No, Brexit's fault surely !