Blogs from Ahangama, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, Asia

I was up at about 8am this morning. I could hear the yoga moving around, looked at the time, then chose to turn over for another half an hour! I am enjoying the lazy mornings, but they aren’t going to last the whole holiday. I know that when I hit Australia, it will be a whole different ball game! Ha ha! So I’m enjoying whilst I can! It was overnight oats and fruit, with all other bits on the end for breakfast today. To be honest, I’ve never eaten them before, but Ella gave us the option for going out for breakfast for a change. I could have gone with that option, but it’s nice for Ella to have a change from time to time. We got a tuk tuk to Hangtime. We had smashed avocado ... read more

The astrologer in Rishikesh told me I should hang out with and feed dogs, so I ran with it and accepted an opportunity to go to Sri Lanka with an almost stranger to volunteer at an animal shelter for a week. Plans had changed once again (I'm starting to get used to this) and Orion and I have been split up for a few weeks while he is in Nepal. I joined a German Buddhist (who has doubled as my bodyguard) to Midigama in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. It was definitely the most spontaneous plans I've ever made (aside from jumping in the car for a random weekend camping trip), as Orion gave me notice of his new plans and then 24 hours later I was buying my new flight. Another 48 hours and ... read more

Sri Lanka was to be one of the most interesting and beautiful places we visited – a bit of everything rugged coast, mountains, beaches and history. Although the temperature was humid there was some respite with cooler evenings and occasionally some rain which helped. In the evenings when we reached the hills you could say it was almost chilly – very welcome after months of relentless heat. Sri Lanka is another multi-faith place Buddhist/Muslim/Christian and a few others. The taxi driver from the airport gave a quick overview of some local information...for some unknown reason all the local fisherman were Christian (how apt), he was a Buddhist which is also the main religion. The discussion quickly turned to cricket and to his favourite cricket player – Malinga, this meant very little to me (Tina) at this ... read more