We set off from The Rocks to visit New Town, Sydney, about a twenty minute taxi drive away. It is not a new town at all. In fact, it da...
I’m sitting at a railway station, and I have a ticket for a destination. Part of the charm and nostalgia of travelling in Sri Lanka i...
We arrive at Kyoto Station, flash our two-week Japan Rail card and get to our platform easily. Where we stand on the platform becomes a...
The British occupation of Colombo created the heyday of Fort. It was a gateway to the British Empire, north, east and west. This area w...
The ferry leaves from wharf 3 circular Quay Sydney . It’s mid-week and mid-day, so only thirty percent full. Departure time is fixed...
We land in Sydney, and the Rocks have heavy rain, and it’s late in the evening. A pleasant, young, well-educated Indian taxi driver ...
So here we are in Christchurch, fifteen years after the last earthquake, 185 lives lost and many injured. This is our second visit sinc...
It’s an early train to Nara from Kyoto, Japan. It is about a forty-five-minute journey. This is perfect as it gives us five hours in ...
We decide to walk from Tribeca to the High Line northwards along the Hudson waterfront in New York. We are heading to the development o...
Koneswaram was one of those mornings where I didn’t go with a plan; I just went with the intention to breathe. And honestly, that’s...
There is something very Sri Lankan about wanting to get away without actually going away. The desire is not to disappear, but to create...
Let me tell you something. Some places don’t just welcome you… They emotionally adopt you. That was my weekend at Uppuveli Beach by...
I’m sure most of us living in Sri Lanka have visited locations on the island that include a Fort . The most likely example is Galle ...
I thought I knew Unawatuna well. I had been there enough times to believe I had already formed an opinion, enough visits for it to slip...
We head out on a twenty-metre yacht from Skopelos to Alonnisos, both islands of the Northern Sporades of Greece. The biggest island of ...
We have had over thirty nights’ stay at this seafront southern town or stretch of Koggala, both before and after the 2004 tsunami. It...
In my late teen years, I would spend many weekends in Newark-on-Trent in Middle Midlands. For the one to five months of good weather ea...
I recently spent a half day in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya, Kandy, which was my first visit. Appalling, considering I’v...
The large ten-kilometre Weligama Bay is one of the most beautiful beaches on the island of Sri Lanka. It is known as the Riviera of the...
We set off to the English south coast, following a trend that began in the eighteenth century. We are heading for Brighton. Time Out vo...
Paris is made up of twenty administrative districts, many with unique features, history, importance, architecture, ethnic mix, retailin...
It’s not my first visit to the Bordeaux region of France, as I had previously toured some wineries while working in the duty-free ind...
Croydon is just over nine miles south of Charing Cross, London. Saffron was produced locally in Roman times in the area. It was referre...
It is the second visit to another top villa in Mirissa, right on the beach. They must think, however, that I’m a British tourist, the...
When you turn off the main road in Rambukkana and slip into the shade of a coconut plantation, the pace of life shifts without you even...
It’s an early start. The ferry goes at 7:15 a.m. from the seaport of Buenos Aires, which means a wake-up call at five a.m. The taxi i...
It’s early April and we arrive in Tokyo for the first time. It’s the peak of the short blossom season, our guide, Mari, takes us to...
On the road from Bargème to Grasse in Provence, France, we climb the hill to the town of Claviers. A small town with a lovely row of l...
When Amba Yaalu Kandalama first made headlines as Sri Lanka’s first hotel fully managed and staffed by women, the internet did what i...
