30th October 2017

Earlier this year I saw the classic musical On the Town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and it reminded me that New York New York is definitely a helluva town and one I’ll never […]

31st July 2017

Famous as the setting for one of the greatest romantic tragedies of all time, Verona is known as a place for lovers, but for me Romeo and Juliet were bit players in a city that […]

17th June 2017

There’s no doubt that Galle Fort has a different feel to other towns in Sri Lanka, not least because the large number of foreigners who visit and live there have made it a pretty cosmopolitan […]

21st May 2017

Choosing whether to go to Anuradhapura or Polonnaruwa is a bit like being asked to pick your favourite child. While they are both ancient cities in Sri Lanka’s cultural triangle, they are quite distinctly different. We chose […]