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Getting used to the house, and grow your own!

Asia » Sri Lanka » North Western Province » Kurunegala April 24th 2009

Journal 9 Wednesday 22nd April Walking home from town there were a couple of interesting points. First an overwhelming bad smell, like a really over ripe French cheese - eppoisses - only worse, and moments later I heard a guy shouting Durian - apparently the most pungent fruit in the world, well it certainly stank. Later a man walked by with a monkey on a chain - something I found utterly discomforting, and yet as I walked on the monkey did not seem in any distress and was walking happily - not on a tight leash, and it could easily have been comparable to someone walking a beloved dog on a lead. The moral dilemmas one finds oneself wrestling with are one of the many interesting facets of travel. I may have expected to be outraged ... read more

Cleaning up the old house and trying to start work!

Asia » Sri Lanka » North Western Province » Kurunegala April 21st 2009

Boys on verandah

Joeandnicky

Journal 8 Sunday 19th April - Tuesday 21st Cleaning up the old house! We awoke and wandered into town for a quick breakfast after which Nicky and the boys returned to paint some pictures to brighten up the place, and then get on with some cleaning, while I headed off for the first of several trips into town for cleaning supplies. We decided to cut our losses on some things to improve how we feel about here and so I went in search of plastic sheeting to cover any surfaces we were using, some bright cheerful crockery of our own, big plastic buckets, bowls and mops, tupperwares, a variety of scourers and cloths and a selection of vittels. Between my various trips Nicky at her most Susanish performed miracles of cleansing, so we had various spaces ... read more

The Arrival - Culture Shock

Asia » Sri Lanka » North Western Province » Kurunegala April 9th 2009

J being shorn

Joeandnicky

There were only really two problems apart from the length of the flight, the clouds preventing a view of the Maldives from the air, and the regulations preventing us getting off the plane there while it was cleaned, a torture doubled by being able to see the sea from the window of the plane as it sat on the runway. We were struck by how delicate and fragile the Islands looked, and how extraordinary the capital Island looked, every foot of which seemed covered by large buildings. Tired and confused we were extremely relieved to leave the airport and see a man in a pristine white cassock holding a sign with ‘Joe and Nicky’ written on it. It was our first missed photo opportunity! Just over 2 bumpy hours later during which we were seatbelts for ... read more

Brief history of Sri Lanka

The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India. Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa...more history

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