What is your favourite weather?

Tropical weather! With ocean breezes and the scent of flowers like jasmine and frangipani in the air ... Sri Lanka weather, in other words.


(a scene from the drive along the southern coast towards the cities of Galle and Matara; this is probably my favorite drive in all of Sri Lanka)

If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you want it to be?

In Galle, Sri Lanka, where my great-grandfather is from. It's right by the ocean and just gorgeous, but also quiet and peaceful. If not there, I would like to live in a house within walking distance of the beach, somewhere along the Indian Ocean. That is my ultimate dream.


(A view from the famous Galle Fort, a 17th century Dutch fort built at the edge of the city. There's a self-contained little village inside the confines of the Fort!)

Favorite vacation spot?

A beach on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, or somewhere really interesting, unique and out-of-the-way like Tibet or Bhutan. I am determined to visit both the latter countries one day!