Here’s what makes Sri Lankan beaches absolutely unique – and why timing is everything. The seasonal secret,
West/South Coast (Nov-Apr): Unawatuna, Mirissa, Bentota East Coast (May-Sep): Arugam Bay, Pasikuda, Nilaveli …………. tip: Most tourists get this wrong and end up with monsoon rains
I got to know Eardley because his anthropological fieldwork and dissertation in Uva in Sri Lanka came to m attention way back, maybe in the 1980s when I was teaching in Adelaide. I think we met once or twice in Sydney. That is how Eardley’s subsequent “adventure” … presented below … came into my files.
…. and THEN got swallowed up somewhere. But fortune has favoured the arduous and I can tell the world WHAT no other migrant Sri Lankan Aussie has done …... A BUGGER OF A JOURNEY
Eardley Lieversz
Fazli Sameer, … The Compass Café …… If you donno where you’re going, then, any map will do
It was the sort of café people stumbled into without planning. A little crooked building on a side street that never seemed to appear on Google Maps. The hand-painted sign above the door read: “The Compass Café, Directions Served Daily.” Situated in the heart of Kollupitiya, on Green Path, the ambience was amazing and many young people made it a regular place to hang out in the evenings.
Inside, the air smelled of strong coffee and cardamom buns. A jumble of maps covered the walls: ancient parchment, subway diagrams, star charts, even children’s doodles of treasure islands. Every table had a globe, most of them cracked and faded.
Item conveyed to TPS by Charles Schokman & Victor Melder & bearing this title “Sri Lanka ranked the Most Beautiful Island in the World”
Colombo, July 29 (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka has been crowned the Colombo, July 29 (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka has been crowned the most beautiful island in the world, taking the top spot on the list of “The 50 Best Islands in the World” compiled by global travel site Big 7 Travel.
A recent news Item in The Island prompted me to ‘explore’ the web for items displaying the rich history of shipwrecks around our island with incidenal thoughts about the intrepid cluster of undersea explorers in the mid 20th century, namely: Mike Wilson, Arthur C. Clarke, Rodney Jonklaas, Hugh Stewart, Dinkalage et al.
News Item in Ceylon Today, March 2025
A rare species of mushroom, which is considered one of the most unique in the world, has been discovered at a journalist’s residence in Hapugala, Galle, according to the Ceylon Journal of Science.
This mushroom species was first discovered in Malaysia, and later reported in Madagascar. Prior to this, it had been documented in Sri Lanka in 1919 at the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens among fungi. After a long gap, this species was reported again in Sri Lanka in 2023, with the discovery made at the home of a journalist couple, Sajeeva Wijeweera and Sirangika Lokukarawita, in Hapugala, Galle, following heavy rainfall.
Soutik Biswas in BBC.com, 27 February 2025 … where the title reads “Did Iron Age ‘begin’ in India? Tamil Nadu dig sparks debate”
For over 20 years, archaeologists in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region’s ancient past. Their digs have uncovered early scripts that rewrite literacy timelines, mapped maritime trade routes connecting India to the world and revealed advanced urban settlements – reinforcing the state’s role as a cradle of early civilisation and global commerce.
An aerial view of Iron Age graves in Mayiladumparai in Tamil Nadu
Michael Roberts
‘Arriving’ in this world in 1938, I was lucky to reside within the Fort of Galle as the youngest in a large family. My father TW Roberts was a retired Ceylon Civil Servant and a respected member of the upper-class circles in town – with his membership of the Galle Gymkhana Club as one mark of this position. This status notwithstanding, we lived in rented houses –first in Pedlar Street and then in Middle Street.
Galle fort & port in British times … & an Aerial View more recently
Wasantha Chandrapala, in Daily Mirror, 12 January 2025
The Tempitiya-Mahaoya road in Ampara has been closed for traffic and pedestrian movement for the past three days due to an injured wild elephant frequenting the road. Residents of the area said the closure of the road had disrupted civilian life.
HEADLINE in DAILY MIRROR, 12 January 2025 = “Elephant closes Tempitiya-Mahaoya road for three days”
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