Lettuce Be Happy
On the left is what a head of lettuce normally looks like here. 🙁 On the right is what we…
Shopping
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…
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, which is how…
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 linens be sold…
Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!
Trishaws, also known as tuk tuks or three wheelers or auto-rickshaws, are exceedingly handy vehicles, especially countries like Sri Lanka…
Hassles at the grocery store
Life is an adventure here in Sri Lanka, sometimes in ways you don’t quite – as a foreigner – expect….
Fahim’s first day off…
Wedding stuff commences… Fahim took off the next few days because of the wedding and the possible help we might…
The jewellery store called
Twice. To tell us that my jewellery is ready. It’s due Friday. As in, three more days. Can you say……
Fahim’s Shopping!
Lucky guy. He knows what he wants, and he gets it done in no time at all. Why? Is it…
Fabric shopping
Again. Kim and I chatted – over the internet, of course – and we talked about the capri pants that…
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 stove yesterday, Fahim…
Arriving in Sri Lanka
Finally, at 12:50am, Friday, 15 August 2003, I landed in Sri Lanka. Yeah, okay, the plane I was in landed,…