eurinengeer,
sorry for the spelling on Sliema. We went on to Manoel Island where they now make Phoenecian glass. What a scruffy yard now. When we went on a boat ride round the harbour however we approached the landing on the east (?) and up above was an old destroyer lattice mast.
All over Malta it was as if we had just left, left long enough for the dirt to move in, but 20 years on the Malts had still not taken over many of the barracks etc. Bighi was still abandoned. Tigne barracks were just being used possibly by squatters. Up near Gozo, can't remember the name of the beach, was an abandoned army camp.
Sad.