Go Slow, Gozo ; with the Children's Holidays Almost Over, Now Is the Time for a Quiet Break. Make for Gozo with Its Laidback Sunny Days and Balmy Nights
Evening Standard - London › August 27, 2004
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WHEN I close my eyes and think of Gozo, which I do quite often when the skies are dark, it's the colours that come first: gold, blue and red.
Oxblood domes baking under azure skies, warm sandstone cliffs plunging into cobalt water, scarlet festa banners fluttering below a cataract of fireworks. What the Maltese archipelago has lacked in wealth over the centuries it has made up in cultural richness, and Gozo, the smaller of the two inhabited islands, is the single flawless diamond to Malta's gaudy zirconium parure.See the full content of this document
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Go Slow, Gozo ; with the Children's Holidays Almost Over, Now Is the Time for a Quiet Break. Make for Gozo with Its Laidback Sunny Days and Balmy Nights
It is also, in its humble, still and gentle way, the most romantic place.
I'm sure it seems hard to believe at the moment, but the schools really are about to reopen their doors, with the little darlings scooped off the beaches. Gozo, the stillness of its villages only occasionally broken by the odd bellowed "aowa!" as the menfolk prepare for an evening's armpitscratching in the local ...See the full content of this document
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