We’re only a few days away from the New Year. And I don’t know exactly when that came about because only yesterday (so it seemed) I was scrubbing elephants in Sri Lanka at Millennium Elephant Foundation, drinking tequila shots at my hen party in Split, Croatia, moving house to Streatham, getting married, getting a cat, having a belated honeymoon/house hunting …
’So do you like it here?’ asked the English tourist, while I was on duty at the fruit shop. ’Have you ever wondered about the meaning of life?’ I asked instead of an answer, slicing up a rotund pumpkin and scattering seeds all over the counter. ’Yeah,’ he probed. ’Well, I found it,’ I said …
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The train to Kandy was busy and hot, but we sat in between carriages with wind splashing our faces and caressing our hair and hardly noticed the passing of the four hours, mesmerised as I was by the stunning views. I tried to read Anna Karenina standing up in the door, holding the handle as …
The honeymoon tent at Yala We left the beach wishing we’d stayed longer, but we were off to Yala National Park to see leopards. A short taxi ride took us to the meeting point outside Kataragama town, from where we got picked up by a jeep and taken into Noel Rodrigo’s Leopard Safaris Camp. ‘I …
A fake start to our Sri Lankan holiday It hadn’t started particularly well. The six-week long holiday to Sri Lanka commenced with the Qatar QR004 cancelled flight. A 9-hour delay on the less than comfortable seats outside gate 6 of Heathrow’s Terminal 4 ended with the official announcement that the plane was definitely broken, could …
