Bermuda’s flagging tourism industry has received a glowing endorsement in one of the top-selling British Sunday newspapers.The Mail on Sunday a mid-market tabloid with a circulation of close to two million published a flattering review of the Island, complete with somewhat dated file photos of beaches and the St George’s Old Town.The weekly dispatched its travel editor Frank Barrett to the Island, who reassured his readers that “Bermuda has resolutely remained under UK control and is happy to display its Britishness”.Mr Barrett, like many travel writers who visit these shores, describes something of a languorous, sub-tropical paradise that is as quaint as it is quiet.“It is impossible to imagine that anything bad happens on Bermuda, although taxi drivers assured me it has a bit of a drug problem with attendant violent crime,” he wrote.“The only bad behaviour I saw during my week’s stay was from the determined matrons who shouldered me aside in the rush for the cucumber sandwiches when the gong sounded for afternoon tea at Cambridge Beaches.”Mr Barrett appears to have visited most of the familiar sites on the Island during his stay, including the town of St George, Crystal Caves and a tour of Tucker’s Town.He describes Bermuda as “stuck in a Fifties time warp” but given the tone of his review, it is unlikely this is meant as criticism.“Imagine a subtropical version of the Scilly Isles: a charming model village place full of delightful pink sand beaches, neatly manicured gardens, tiny roads, well behaved traffic and friendly locals,” he wrote.Both the Blu Bar and Grill and Cambridge Beaches hotel receive favourable mentions by name in the review.Mr Barrett, who seems otherwise quite taken with the Island lifestyle, had just one reservation about this “perfect holiday place”:“Gratifyingly, the one thing I didn’t see during my springtime stay was anyone wearing Bermuda shorts complete with long socks.“As a 12-year-old, I battled with my mother over my desire to abandon short trousers, so was glad to miss the spectacle of seeing grown men in the modern equivalent. But this would have been the only negative.”