After my fifth Malta holiday in recent years, I am contemplating the impact of Brexit.

While we await EU negotiations to define the meaning of Brexit, the pound’s exchange rates have tumbled, terrorism fears are deterring air travel, the oil price is picking up and there is a UK staycation boom.

I am reminded of the editorial of the Times of Malta of June 21, ‘Doing one’s bit for the country’. Encouraging everybody to do their bit to help make Malta look better and cleaner is important.

Driving standards are a more serious issue. After a week of driving, I began to think I might survive the fortnight with my hired car intact.  I was very relieved to return it all in one piece.

I had no experience of being ripped off, quite the opposite. The room requested at The White Dolphin, Qawra was not immediately available. We were accommodated in a beautiful penthouse at no extra cost until it was, the following day.

Some services are, however, bordering on the rip-off.  Car hire charges look reasonable until one includes the essential extra, the collision waver.

David Cameron could not deliver a Bremain vote with all the machinery of government at his disposal and his pamphlet, placed in every UK letter box, so it is unlikely that Theresa May will renege on the result.

Malta can take low-cost steps to counter the effects of Brexit but they require a change in social attitudes, driving, litter management, fly-tipping and shooting migratory birds, led by a courageous government willing to implement and enforce EU and domestic regulation.

Yes, I’ll be back but, perhaps, less often. I’m not so sure about those who have fewer connections to the Maltese islands.