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Sieges, saints, and salt pans

20 Sept 2026

Today's Sunday Star-Times features my latest dispatch — a tale of nun-magnetism, salt harvesters, and 500 knights who took on 30,000 Ottomans. From Gozo's red sands to Valletta's armoury, check out why Malta has spent millennia being a little too easy to invade.

Malta is the kind of place where history doesn't sit politely in museums — it's baked into the stone and the everyday conversations of people happy to share it. You can pick up a copy of the Sunday Star-Times today.

© Guy Needham 2026

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