view from Lipton's Seat

Christmas time in Sri Lanka

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January 29th 2011
Up until a few weeks before my December holiday (I’m a teacher and at my new school, new country, we had 3 weeks off...sooo well-deserved..) I still hadn’t decided where on earth to go. I wanted to stick closer to home and somewhere not full of expats, specifically drunken expats (I have British people in mind when I think of those two words together) and somewhere not too cold but not boilin ... read more

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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... ... read more