Bliss

    Having had 2-3 jobs the last few months and pretty much no life was all worth it the moment I put my feet in the sand and could smell the ocean! Oh, yes I know very well that’s such a cliché but it is just so true. And another 30 days of this sounds like bliss in my sunburnt ears…

    

   Rainy-season is just about to finish at the Southwest coast of Sri Lanka so there are few, if any tourists around at the moment. When I come to think about it maybe that’s probably why everybody is so happy seeing us again as we arriving means that tourist-season has begun! Or maybe they’re just happy because it is us?

    There’s not even a lot of rain and with something that seems like rainy-season all year-around at home I don’t really mind a couple of clouds every now and then. The only downside with it is that with rain comes the sand flies, and as I’ve said before they are not good friends of mine. Those itchy little bastards.

    When I go back to a place I’ve been before, or even when I go back home, it always feels like the time has been standing still. You will meet the same people at your local supermarket or at the corner-shop, and you say hello to the same tuk-tuk drivers as you did last time. But it is really the small things that change; Ravihan, Manike and Bambera’s two year old, has started talking and he is no baby anymore. And man, he talks! Malke, the five year old is so excited about starting pre-school after Christmas and he’s picking up English words perfectly; last night out of nowhere he suddenly said out loud; ”Goooood niiiiight Sriiii Lanka!!” It is little moments like this that stays with me for a long time. Last time we were here Malke asked his mother if she didn’t send him to school because she didn’t love him as much as she loves the other ones. This little boy amazes me as he has the most beautiful personality and such a big heart.

    What I like most about travelling would have to be the small things such as having a cup of tea with a stranger, talking to a little girl in the street and the guy at the corner-shop (called Neal’s shop here) or simply just sit around and watch people go on with their everyday life. I just love it; you meet people you’ve never met before but who you still feel so familiar with, and maybe most important you will meet people who laugh at the same things as you do wherever you go. And I am not saying I am not appreciating these small things at home as there’s nothing like having a cup of green tea with my mum or my cousin while sharing some hot new gossip! (Shouldn’t forget my sister in case she is reading this!)Manike and Bambera also changed the colour of their house since last time from bright pink to bright orange; what great colours they use!! 

    Tonight it is raining and we've got fireflies in our room. How cool isn't that?