Bus to St Paul's Bay, reputed site of St Paul's shipwreck as recorded in the book of Acts. I'm a little more tolerant of oral history than I once was. After all, historic events have to have occurred somewhere, so why not where local tradition says? On the other hand, personal experience is enough to suggest how rapidly truth becomes corrupted. As a child I met a man whose father had been killed (so I remember it) by suffragettes who mistook him for Lloyd George. However, decades later, when I realised that this must be a googlable event, it became clear that he must only have been injured, albeit by murderously inclined women. Obviously the man would not have described this as being killed; the shifting sands of memory must be the culprit.
There is a church built atop the prison in which Paul stayed, but we visited it last time we were in Malta and don't go again. We do stroll round the town of Bugibba, (g as in magic). It had been one of our hotel options this visit so we're curious. And not sorry we didn't opt for it. The coast is pretty enough and there's a friendly square with benches at visiting distance. Places to have coffee or a meal or a drink overlooking the sea. It's just that it's populated overwhelmingly by retired people speaking English. A high proportion of them making us look slim! May be my imagination but north of England seemed to predominate (overinfluenced by man with Manchester United t-shirt?). Don't know if our area is actually more genuinely Maltese - it seems very international and very young - but varied and alive. And it doesn't feel at all unsafe. Noisy, but we're pretty sound sleepers. And, interestingly, restaurant and café prices seem lower in Valetta.