For most of this year we lived a stone’s throw from Dehiwela beach. It was my running track, a place to have a beer, a place to relax. On weekends…
Galle Face Green is a bit of a misnomer. It really should be Galle Face Brown, or Galle Face Dirt. Regardless of a more appropriate name it is one of…
Net fishing is common along most coastal areas in Sri Lanka. A long and tiresome job, teams of mostly men and sometimes women spend hours and hours hauling in kilometre…
The Farah III was a container ship that was high-jacked/ran aground on the North West coast of Sri Lanka in 2006 and was used by the Tamil Tigers as the…
After getting ripped off in my first Maloo-endevour, Ramaka from work took us under her wing and offered to take us straight to the source, the fishing boats. At 7am…
It’s really cranking into sunset season now as we are getting into the last of the monsoon. We are getting some great evening storms that make for some pretty spectacular…
On our trip to Arugum Bay we spent a day in the East Coast town of Batticaloa. Batticaloa is a Portuguese derivation of the original Tamil name, Matakkalappu, which translates to Muddy Swamp. That’s a pretty…
I was recently invited for afternoon tea by a lady called Ramakka. She lives a few streets down from us, on the other side of the train tracks by the…
Last weekend we made the pilgrimage East to the surfing mecca of Arugum bay (aka A Bay). While going South involves clear highways and sloppy waves, going East is traffic…
Last weekend we took the boards and headed South to the beaches of Mirissa, Weligama, and Hikkaduwa. Sri Lanka has two “tourist seasons” that provide perfect holiday conditions – balmy…
Is This Too Spicy? 