We went back for a holiday in '92. What was remarkable was the military barracks etc had simply been abandoned as if they were waiting for us to return. Bighi Hospital, as seen from Grand Harbour had, IIRC a massive set of doors that were open but the place desolate. The barracks at Tigne were only just being used as squats. Out of town there were camps, gates locked, barbed wire rusting but abandoned.