Why Malta?

With a fresh look, new blogger Winifred shares her Malta connections with the Maltese blogging community:

I started coming to Malta with my parents when I was a child, my earliest memories are in the late 1920's / early thirties. My father (so I am told) was a keen amateur writer and used to visit Malta with us to escape the gloomy UK (my mother died in 1927).He was very deeply saddened with events in Malta during war and I remember seeing him crying when he found out about the theatre in Valletta that was bombed. I know he never recovered from the sad news and the plight of the Maltese (many of whom were his personal friends). My father died in 1947 and I continued coming to the islands ever since. In 1948, when I was in my mid-twenties - I met a young man Maltese man - we fell in love and were going to get married, but sadly he passed away. I still miss him to this day and often think of what would have been. As a solid socialist I followed political events there very closely (still do in fact). But I have never been involved in Maltese politics directly..