Making up for lost time
I RECENTLY SPENT a wonderful weekend in Malta as one of the judges at the Valletta Concours d’Elegance. Taking place in the historic St George’s Square at the heart of this architecturally mesmerising limestone city, it meant reuniting with a band of owners, organisers and judges that had last been there in 2019. Many’s the email conversation with these friends in the interim that has concluded with our hopes for once again enjoying a pint of freezing cold Cisk (the local brew) together. When that finally came to pass last month, what was most astonishing was that all the elapsed time simply evaporated. So embracing was the familiarity that we all repeatedly referred to ‘last year’ when, of course, we meant ‘three years ago’ – yet it was suddenly as if…