Yes, it does seem strange that I would be hearing stuff online about Malta, given that I have no connection whatsoever to that place. I heard that nobody really lives on Malta anymore. Probably that means that all of the people who can afford to leave, have purchased other homes elsewhere and maybe keep a second home on Malta or park a yacht there or something. Also, the people who live there have their own private language that nobody else can understand anyway, so perhaps their Sicilian tormentors have moved on. And of course there is the Knights of Malta, now based in Rome, but is that really the same country as the island itself?
The only thing that I remember hearing about Malta during high school is that it is a great place to go if you want to work on buying or earning or getting an aristocratic title such as Count or Baron. But of course you would have to have enough money to purchase the appropriate estate for such an exalted position and to carry on the philanthropic and other duties associated with that. Not really an ambition of mine, but I do not doubt there might be some sort of truth to that. I did hear him talking about that.
