Sepia toned houses

Emy is a juvenile justice youth worker from Victoria, Australia who blogs at Nomads - Europe 28.07.05. In this post she describes her last days in Malta before starting her way back to St Albans:

all the buildings and houses in malta are sepia toned. i don't know if that's by law or by choice, but it looks pretty cool against the blue sky and the bluer sea. i really wasn't expecting malta to be so beautiful. i knew the ocean was spos to be pretty amazing but even with that warning i can't believe how stunning it is. we've been on the go almost from the moment we got here... we stopped at a little island called comino, which has nothing but 2 resorts and a police station on it, then we went to paradise beach and a couple of other beautiful spots that the locals know. i can't wait to find somewhere to download photos to share with you guys. it was seriously the bluest water i've ever seen in my life. the closest i can think to describe it is the pictures of tropical islands you see in brochures sometimes, but that just doesn't do it justice...

yesterday we were shown another part of valletta. we were driven up to this beautiful lookout where you can see across the harbour all the way to the town on the other side. there's some summit happening in malta in the next couple of weeks or so, and there's guna be a lot of headhonchos here including the queen, and there's lots of preparations taking place around town at the moment. when we got to this lookout, there were a couple of guys dressed in militia uniforms, cleaning a cannon with what looked like a huge pipecleaner...