Nurse away your worries in Malta

Mighty powers have a habit of belittling strategically-placed islands, and so it was in the Mediterranean in times past. Cyprus was, and still is, condescendingly regarded as ‘the unsinkable battleship', while Malta has been known over the centuries as ‘the nursing station'.

During the reign of the Knights of St John and during World War I, Malta was the retreat to which the sick and wounded from far off battlefields were sent. Modern ...