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Malta is one of those perfect places where it is possible to find yourself being put back together at the edge of the water.  It is a very small island, about twice the size of Washington, DC, with a local population that speaks Maltese and English, and maintains a very cosmopolitan outlook on things.  Even though it is an island unto itself, there is a long history of cultures coming into contact here, as is pretty typical of islands.  There are confluences from Northern Africa as well as Italy, with traditions that come from old and new Europe as well as the African continent, and as such makes for a wonderful place for anyone with even a passing ethnographic interest.

The stays here are lovely and very stylish.  A luxury hotel in Malta is necessarily designed to speak to the elegance and simplicity of the place.  Guests can expect to be treated to a heady combination of old world tradition along with very recent fashions and styles.  In many ways, it feels like going back in time, and in other ways, it is like walking uneasily into a future where no one seems to know how we got here.  There is a gorgeousness to the place that dominates however, giving the isolation of the island a place all to itself.

Malta is a kind of warm paradise where things that were left in other times seem to resurface.  There are uncanny moments here and there, revealing the island’s magic to those who are willing to sit still for awhile.  The pace is very different here, again, like many islands, but the pace doesn’t ever recede into sleepiness, but rather into contemplation, and a place where vision and dream start to converge.  This is a place where memory speaks from the sea to the rocks, and there is always an urgent cry coming from somewhere nearby.