Sri Lanka's colour is white. Though green would immediately come to mind, with the glistening foliage of the ordered tea plantations on impossible slopes, the dripping emerald green of rain forests and the darker forbidding green of tight dense jungles. However it is the white I find intriguing. It is the colour of the many Buddhist stupas and temples here in Sri Lanka, the colour of religious respect, and the colour of learning. Our first day on the road wa...

It takes discipline and dedication to do nothing. Maldives is a classy "fly and flop" destination offering no expectation of you other than to do, well, just nothing. We get it. This a choice for people exhausted by their existence, cowered by their corporate world and wanting to blow a fortune on, well, doing nothing. Our fellow guests do not seem to be honeymooners as we had expected, rather older, high end vacationers. The full force of the monsoon has ...