It can be challenging to keep a house on the edge of the jungle on the Southern coast of the tropical island of Sri Lanka, from being taken over by the elements. The elements tend to be invasive… Strong rains…
Exploring the Southern coast, Sri Lanka ~ Hiriketiya beach, Jasper House
With a birthday coming my way, I definitely want to take a trip to celebrate. Celebrate being alive, celebrate being healthy and happy, and the fact that I am living the conscious life of my choosing. Short of going to…
“It’s a very simple house, Madam….”
Sri Lanka used to be a British colony (Ceylon) until 1948, and there is one cultural “habit” that decades later, seems to still be entrenched. And that is, the use of the formal “Madam” and “Sir”. Having grown up in South…
First… everything… in our humble abode, in Dalawella, Sri Lanka
This past week was a week of firsts… our first night in our new home, our first animal sightings, first morning walk, and of course our first time to try out the bath tub. So before we normalize into our…
Sculpting our lives, building our Sri Lanka nest ~ part 4
At this point, we are days away from moving from Viet Nam to Sri Lanka and there are still a few big missing pieces of the puzzle, most notably our bathtub. Of course we can start off with just a…
Sculpting our lives, building our Sri Lanka nest ~ part 3
If readers are confused about our “nest construction”, switching as it does between Hoi An, Viet Nam and Unawatuna, Sri Lanka, there is good reason for it. We are creating two home bases in parallel and, to be more exact,…
Sculpting our lives, designing our nest ~ in Sri lanka
Before there was a house, there was a country. And before there was a country, there was a region. We just culminated a two year long due diligence process that was fun, thrilling, thought provoking and which forced us to…