Sri Lanka! Land of Fibreglass Monks! So this ends Sri Lanka week . I've enjoyed it, getting all this stuff out of my system and ...

Some tea. As a writer, if you ever get asked to pen a feature about tea you know precisely what to do - the vast majority of pieces ...

A grumpy old expat wearing a Father Ted t-shirt in a spice garden. The two biggest tourist scams in Sri Lanka are spice gardens and ...

Built in the early years of the C19th as the British governor's residence, extensively rebuilt in the 1820s and used in the Second ...

Scotland? Nope, Sri Lanka. Exotic tropical flowers rub shoulders with fuschia  and pink roses in the rich gardens of Nuwara Eliya'...

 Making tracks... Having endured the awful sight of these majestic animals chained up and herded around for tourists at Pinnawal...

Plenty of room - it's overtake time! We got into Colombo at 3am-odd and met travelling companions Ishara and Duminda (Deepika&#...

 "Right lads, I'll have a palace up there and some pleasure gardens please.  Quick as you like now. Chop chop!" Sigir...

The Mackwoods factory at Labookellie is a charming trip Mackwoods' tea factory at Labookellie is on the A5 up to Nuwara Eliya fr...

One of the two wings of the Earl's Regency Hotel in Kandy.  It's actually prettier than this in real life, but not a lot pret...