Broke’n’English: Learning to live in Sri Lanka by Jerry Smith Food and drink

Broke’n’English: Learning to live in Sri Lanka by Jerry Smith Food and drinkBack in 2004 Jerry Smith and his wife Sally decided to stake their future on running a guest house in Sri Lanka, where Sally had been born and raised. It was a country and culture they knew little; Sally had let the island aged thirteen when it was still Ceylon. Investing every penny they had in their project, owning no property in England, it was an act of astounding stupidity, naivety or courage depending on your point of view. It took another

thrilling novel of violence and love

These plants usually have to be planted deliberately by humans and do not generally spread widely by themselves

David Robson

These wise meditations teach us how to remember our fundamental gift of belonging

but her orthodox terror of a father stands in his way

An unwritten letter is crumpled in the mind of a pensive woman

Throughout

a watercolour journal by Weerakkodige Vasantha Perera

Soon his talents were applied on a larger scale

the last kingdom of Sri Lanka

discovers a land brimming with myth and legend as colourful as the traveller himself

that’s not the point