Dossing Times

The Dossing Times is a blog about movies, politics and other random stuff. The blog's motto is 'Instead of being useful'. From A Trip to Malta:

..I had one of these saccharine sounding moments in Malta, when on my last day having felt I should pack in as much as possible to my time there I found myself just letting go of any pressure to be my usual sight seeing motivated machine and enjoy my surrounds. I had even allocated a set amount of time for sunbathing and swimming and wanted to be heading down town for a meal to a restaurant recommended to me and I caught myself walking through an open air bar still dripping from my swim and found myself magnetically drawn towards a stool perched at a table overlooking an area called St. Paul’s Bay nestled nicely within the jagged outline of the north coast of Malta..

..The result though is resoundly positive, the only draw back being the heavily Anglicised tourist culture which left parts of some areas in a faceless tacky tourist daze. A Princess Diana bar was the crowing piece of unfortunate pandering to British tourists. There is still much to see and do, a beach holiday can be supplemented by rambles around gorgeously sedate inner city streets and harbour cruises, looking at the mono tone stone buildings – the colour coming from the rich history of the events inside – our guide himself born under ground as the island, a key strategic point during WWII was being blitzed at the time. For all you table quiz fans, Gozo and Comino are its smaller islands to the north of the island and they are equally places I would like to get to on being presented with a second opportunity to visit Malta.