Tag: shopping

Posted in Life

Lettuce Be Happy

On the left is what a head of lettuce normally looks like here. 🙁 On the right…

Posted in Life

Ice Cream Trishaw

Most of you probably have ice cream trucks or bicycles where you live. i’m thinking probably trucks. Here, it’s mostly trishaws. Same general principle…

Posted in Life My Photography Sri Lanka

Project #365 Day 74 Woven Goods For Sale

This photo was taken on the road between Colombo and Kurunegala from out of a moving car,…

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

Shops and Stalls and Open-Air Markets

It’s true, I’m easily confused. 🙂 Here’s another confusion for me. Why would soft toys and household…

Posted in My Photography Sri Lanka

Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!

Trishaws, also known as tuk tuks or three wheelers or auto-rickshaws, are exceedingly handy vehicles, especially countries…

Posted in Other Sri Lanka

Hassles at the grocery store

Life is an adventure here in Sri Lanka, sometimes in ways you don’t quite – as a…

Posted in Other Sri Lanka

Fahim’s first day off…

Wedding stuff commences… Fahim took off the next few days because of the wedding and the possible…

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The jewellery store called

Twice. To tell us that my jewellery is ready. It’s due Friday. As in, three more days….

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

Fahim’s Shopping!

Lucky guy. He knows what he wants, and he gets it done in no time at all….

Posted in Other Sri Lanka

Fabric shopping

Again. Kim and I chatted – over the internet, of course – and we talked about the…

Posted in Sri Lanka

To wait or not to wait, that is the question

In Sri Lanka, many things are promised but not necessarily delivered. When we bought our fridge and…

Posted in Sri Lanka

Arriving in Sri Lanka

Finally, at 12:50am, Friday, 15 August 2003, I landed in Sri Lanka. Yeah, okay, the plane I…