In 2011, we took a weekend trip to Sri Lanka (so hilariously awesome to me that I can say that about our life back in Kuala Lumpur). My cousin had visited Sri Lanka several times and spoke rapturously of the swaths of tea plantations and the slow pace at which the country moved. We could hardly ...
Sri Lanka
a quick scone for a leisurely tea
Scones for tea time at Casa de Gravy One of the habits I've tried to bring back with me from Sri Lanka is afternoon tea. When the hubby, the Gravy Baby and I were lazing about in the mountains last month, surrounded by tea plantations, our hostess at the estate house would serve us a tray of tea ...
the elephants go two by … twenty?
On the way back down from the winding roads towards Colombo, we stopped for lunch in Pinnawela. It had been a hot, bumpy morning down the mountain, and everyone needed a break. Oh, and we'd heard that while us humans eat lunch in Pinnawela, the elephants take a bath. Why, yes, yes they ...
taking a time out in sri lanka
Sunset and tea at Ashburnham Estate Up in the mountains of Sri Lanka are tea plantations. Tons of them. The jagged countryside of the Knuckles Mountain range is dotted with the lush, neatly-planted green rows of tea plants, and everywhere you go people are stopping to have a very civilized ...
