Together with our trekking guide, naturalist and yoga teacher Sanath, Jerry and one of our guests walked Stage One of the Pekoe Trail recently. The trail starts at the Ceylon Tea Museum on the road from Kandy to Jungle Tide […]
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Sri Lanka has been getting a bad press in the last few months. The media, who always focus on bad news, have reported the serious economic problems and the widespread public protests. But the protests only attract attention when violence […]
We have a local as well as a global ‘bucket list’ Although we have lived in Sri Lanka for more than five years there are still lots of places we want to visit, some of them do-able in a day […]
Just before the country went into coronavirus lockdown we visited Tamarind Gardens, near Digana on the eastern side of Kandy. It’s a place we’d heard a lot about but not been to and the opportunity arose because they were holding […]
Until the other day Kotmale was mostly known to me as a brand of dairy products. Sure, I knew it was a place, and roughly where – off the Kandy to Nuwara Eliya road on the right. And that it […]
Meenawatte is the estate where Sally lived from the age of ten to thirteen (and also as a baby, but of course she has no memory of that). Her father didn’t plant on the estate; by then he was a […]
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