A Maltese woman who survived two world wars is celebrating her 106th birthday today.
Maria Farrugia, born in Hamrun on 7 March 1912, today was visited by parliamentary secretary for the elderly Tony Agius Decelis.
Farrugia lived in Hamrun all her life, and although she was too young to remember the horrors of the First World War, she has vivid memories of what Malta went through in the Second World War.
She recalls that she did not like going to shelters because she was more afraid of falling ill than of the bombs that were raining down.
She remembers spending her summers in St Paul’s Bay and Mellieha, and has a memory of the train service that existed between Mdina and Valletta until 1931.