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My wife and I had our first visit to your beautiful country this week. We found a lovely secluded Gozo beach and spent a few moments picking up the litter left by two French tourists.
But stepping off the Gozo ferry was memorable too for the horde of taxi drivers accosting us with their wares and then to be pursued by them and after we escaped up the road for other taxi drivers to stop and rush over the road to accost us again.
Then there was St Paul’s Bay where we could walk along the lovely promenade and be aggressively stopped by the disgrace of England and parasite of Malta – I speak of the Timeshare Pest on foot or in cars prowling around stopping walkers and other cars alike.
It was rather a relief to reach our final day, to say goodbye to the harassment as well as the dog excrement regularly deposited on pavements and the growing accumulations of litter, both reminding us of South Wales. But sad to leave the beautiful gardens only one of which, in Valletta, was left to litter and weeds. Also the spectacular ancient sites some of which looked so worn, crumbling and at times vandalised that we could have been viewing them straight after a major battle.
Yet your fantastic local food will leave a more permanent memory, especially the delicious strawberries. You have a rich food heritage which we hope you don’t throw away with an influx of tasteless imports – meanwhile the hotel served us a breakfast of foreign cheeses and meats, English sausage, bacon, beans, eggs. What utter crap. The rot has begun we think.
But then the rot began when you destroyed your lovely coastline with faceless monstrosities. Your country is still building them along with potholed roads without cycle lanes and paths for walkers. Are you sure your priorities don’t need a rethink? Will we be returning? Sadly, probably not.
S. Weelz
Gosport, UK
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