Dancing on the beach

This is what I dream about now, dancing on the beach in the evening, wathing the sun go down. Oh I miss my Asia som much, this photo is taken in Sri Lanka.

And here is another one, a little later. When night falls in the paradise, also from Sri Lanka.

The photo is taken at The Blue Water Hotel in Wadduwa.

This is my beach!

I can't help loving this photo of some stray dogs on a beach in Sri Lanka. South of Columbo, one afternoon I found these dogs getting tough against some cow's walking the beach as usual.

It is like they are saying, this is my beach! Down under is another photo of the beach and one of the dogs, up in the right corner, close to the sea.

Read this too from Sri Lanka: http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.com/2011/12/masks-in-sri-lanka.html

Masks in Sri Lanka

Here we have som more ideas of shopping abroad - if you go to Sri Lanka you can enjoy these wooden masks - hand made of course.

I did not by one of these but I must say they where beautifully made, all by hand and then carefully painted in vivid colors. 

The same guy's that med these above also where working one some other stuff that you can see here.

Men at work in a small village in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka - elephants and a nice cup of tea

Last year - in december - I went to Sri Lanka, my first visit to that country. It was warm, sunny and inspirational. I met a lot of wounderful people everywhere and the landscape was so fascinating. From beaches to montains.

   

The food was great and the sea was warm, even if the waves where too high for me.

   There where not many people on the beach outside my hotel in Wadduwa. But every morning the fisherman came with their boats, and there where some dog there too. But mostly just us from the hotel. Like on this photo.

One day I went for a trip to the mountains, the area around Kandy. Beautiful landscape but it is not easy to travel on the narrow roads with sometimes very heavy traffic. It all takes so much longe times than expected.

But it is so worth it all...

Sri Lanka still has a big brittish influence, like cricket and tea. I also wisited a tea plantation. Nice to be up in the mountains, cooler and very beauftiful landscape vise.

Here you can see how they pick the leaves that later will become tea, nice cups of hot tea.

And I was also very lucky to have picked the right hotel. I stayed at the lovely Blue Water Hotel in Wadduwa. A modern hotel designed by Geoffrey Bawa, a local very famous architect.

The hotel had beach access and some very nice swimmingpools.

And the food at the hotel was just amazing. And since I had an "all inclusive" deal I ate so much I gained some weight. But just the desserts where worth it all. I still dream about their chocolate mousse...

Here you can see some example of what we had for lunch one day, in the pic you see just the desserts.

And now it's february...

Every day that's passing we get closer and closer to the spring, I so hate winters. And Yes, I know I have been talking about this before. But I am really tired of snow, cold weather and ice.
Not to talk about how dark it is, dark when you get up and when you come home from work. But the thing that I really love abot Sweden is that you then have these lovely summer nights, when its daylight alomst 24-7.
The I can make some nice pizzas in my own forno a'legna, an outside owen in my garden imported from Italy.
The pic abowe is from Sri Lanka, where it is WARM and sunny and lovely, and...
That is thing's I love.
Speak to you later.

Home again

It looks like I only write here when I have been away on holiday. And here we go again, my latest trip was to Sri Lanka, a beautiful island in Asia.
And I stayed at a lovely hotel, The Blue Water in Wadduwa. Here is a pic from the beach.