A six day Malta diary

Andrew from the United Kingdom has recently spent six days in Malta. He kept a diary for each day of his holiday which he has posted online. On day five he toured the central part of Malta:

We had lunch in Rabat. The main attraction (apart from lunch!) was St Paul's Church. This large church was lavishly furnished with altars, paintings - some 12 or 15 feet high. There was an intricate mural on the high ceiling. Below the church was the grotto where Paul supposedly spent three months when he was shipwrecked on Malta on his way to Rome (see the Bible account here). The guide told us of all sorts of other supposed events beyond the Bible account; he just about stopped short of telling us what Paul had for dinner!

The final stop was the Mosta Dome - or rather the large town church on which the dome sits. Once again, the decor was lavish - paintings, plaster work and statues. The church could accommodate 9,000 people. It was hard to find any one photo shot that captured the scale of the place. The church's claim to fame is that three bombs dropped onto it during a service in the time of the Second World War bounced away and did not explode.

Read Andrew's six day Malta diary.