One of the highlights from my tour round the south part of Sri Lanka was elephant riding in Pinnewala (or is it Pinnawala?). It was a hotly anticipated part of the trip in fact and we saved it for the last few days of our visit to Sri Lanka. Despite having been to a load…
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As Thirsty Thursdays go this ranks as one of the most obscure! I had spent a week or so in Sri Lanka, touring around. It was a special trip because my parents had joined me and my girlfriend – I only see my parents once at year at most these days. It got to the…
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In Sri Lanka, tea is the national drink. Well it has to be! Every day almost every nationality in the world will sip a liquid that was made from leaves grown here in the mysterious hills of Sri Lanka. I made the trip to the valleys and hills at Haputale in Sri Lanka to the…
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Today’s Friday’s Featured Food is a recent one! I have been checking out Sri Lanka for the first time this month and added a few of the local foods to my “tried that” list. Today I focus on Devilled Beef. I tried it in Kurunegala in Sri Lanka. I love beef – that and bacon…
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The town of Kurunegala in Sri Lanka ranks highly with me and was a bit of a surprise to us all. It wasn’t actually mentioned in my books or guides and hadn’t been recommended. But it was an incredible trip to Sri Lanka with Mum, Dad and Panny that had a lot of unusual places…
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This week saw me arrive in Sri Lanka for the first time. It has been a very busy week travel wise, one of the highlights of which was going whale watching in Mirissa on Sri Lanka’s south coast. Shy and unknown, Mirissa doesn’t even make my map of this magical island, yet somehow it’s a…
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