The Yahoo Travel News site is featuring Gozo as one of ‘Europes 10 Secret Summer Hot Spots,’ the places to go to leave the tourist trail behind.

Europe is popular in the summer for several reasons, the days are longer, the sun is shining and everyone’s in the holiday spirit. Unfortunately, it’s also peak season, when tourists swarm the continent, prices skyrocket and hotels are pretty much booked up well in advance. Hence the listing of the 10 secret summer hot spots.

Gozo is described as, “the small European island of Malta is an undiscovered treasure on its own – and its sister island, Gozo, is an even better-kept secret.

“The name of this Mediterranean island on the Maltese archipelago means “joy” and you’ll be full of joy once you see how uncrowded it is. Fly into Malta and then take a ferry to Gozo. You’ll be free to explore hidden gems like Calypso’s Cave – rumored to be the very cave Homer refers to in “The Odyssey” – and the Azure Window, a rock arch that is nature’s frame for the Mediterranean.”

Other resorts making up ‘Europes 10 Secret Summer Hot Spots’ are Smuggler’s Cove, Zakynthos in Greece, Island Of Vis in Croatia, Badeschiff, Berlin in Germany, Grenan, Skagen in Denmark, Fermanagh Lakelands, Northern Ireland, Krapfenwaldbad, Vienna in Austria, Arezzo in Italy, Kastrup Sea Bath, Kastrup in Denmark and El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain.

Earlier this month it was also announced that the Azure Window in Gozo had been nominated for the ‘8th Wonder of the World’ run by VirtualTourist.com.

To vote for one or more of the nominated landmarks for the 8th Wonder of the World, just visit www.virtualtourist.com/8thwonder.

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