The topic has often come up in the past about the implication of living a nomadic life, when it comes to friends. Default thinking is of friends being geographically close. And yet, we often point out, this does not have…
“Poya” ~ Full Moon, in Colombo, Sri Lanka
It is a full moon in Sri Lanka, and that means one thing: “Poya”. Poya is a religious and national holiday, a Buddhist practice that celebrates every full moon, a time for Sri Lanka’s Buddhists to flock to temple under…
Back in our rustic paradise ~ Sri Lanka
Back home in Sri Lanka after being “on the road” for six weeks, we spring into action to get the little house we live in, in as good shape as possible, as we have quite a few home exchanges coming…
Postcards from France ~ La Rochelle
Our meander through France has been so enjoyable that the idea of turning in the car in Toulouse to sit in an airport to wait for a short flight back to Paris, does not seem like such a good idea…
Postcards from France ~ Biarritz and Saint Jean de Luz
The thought of a road trip in France brings to my mind “Asterix”, the wildly successful comic strip, and specifically the one when Asterix and Obelix go on an epic tour of France to source quality gastronomic specialties for a…
Postcards from France ~ Brugairolles
14 years old, a French boy with no English, I was on the train, by myself, from Paris to Canterbury, England. My mission? To go and visit Barbara, the French/British girl I was enthralled with, who was away from Paris…
Postcards from France ~ Toulouse
We take a short flight from Paris to Toulouse, the center of European aerospace and HQ for Airbus industries. Toulouse is on the South West corner of France, a region that neither one of us has visited before. We have…
Postcards from France ~ Paris
Thanks to Ben’s work, we have an opportunity to be in Paris for a few days. Oh what a hardship! In Spring! In Sri Lanka there is no Spring of course, just eternal summer ~ with wet and dry seasons,…