What's best for Gozo (2)

I thought I had made my view quite clear to Joseph Vella (Bridge to Progress, January 23). All the inhabitants of Gozo deserve a bridge if they want one. I fully agree with him, as I said in my first letter. I even put some information about a successful bridge built from my hometown to an island outside Bergen. I am not visiting Gozo as a day tourist - I stay there for at least a week each time, and if I bother to go to Malta, I do it in one day.

I have visited Gozo in spring, autumn and winter - the last time was last December. I have been transported over the Gozo Channel by the Midas service in the middle of the night in very windy weather, and that was not a pleasant voyage.

But luckily, that is history. A big thank you to Gozo Channel for sailing at night. I really understand that all of those who go to Malta everyday to work want to do it as quickly and as smoothly as possible.

But I do not agree that the day tourists will continue going by bus if there was a bridge. Tourists are quite lazy and if it is possible, most of them will come in their own car.

There will always be different opinions between a Gozitan and a tourist because we have different aims for staying in Gozo. But believe me: I love Gozo and the people living there, and my wish will always be what is best for the people of Gozo and their beautiful island.