Description: From Sri Lanka with Love: A Tapestry of Travel Tales is a captivating collection of travel writing that spans continents, cultures, and unforgettable moments. Blending memoir, travelogue, and cultural exploration, vivid stories from Sri Lanka and beyond are shared, offering readers a rich tapestry of global adventures, personal reflections, and local encounters. Whether navigating bustling city streets, remote villages, or coastal retreats, these travel tales celebrate the joy of discovery, the beauty of human connection, and the transformative power of journeying through unfamiliar lands. Perfect for fans of travel memoirs, cultural storytelling, and armchair adventures, this book invites readers to explore the world through the eyes of a thoughtful and curious traveller. This book centres around a holiday in Sri Lanka, exploring immediate surroundings and travelling further afield in this wonderful island. Each day brought new experiences ranging from relaxing to exhausting, amusing to thought provoking, straightforward and the very opposite! The holiday provided an ideal opportunity to reminisce about previous holidays with family and friends; from simple caravan holidays in Scotland to jetting across the world, adapting to different climates and cultures in Iceland, America, India, Hong Kong, Norway, Spain, Italy, London, Madeira, South Africa, Dubai, Canada, Austria and Australia.
Brief description: Margaret Moore, a wife and mother who loves family life, is also a curious traveller and storyteller. The eldest of five daughters, her childhood holidays were always in homeland Scotland. But journeys since have taken her from the spice-centred streets of Colombo to geysers in Iceland, Levada's in Madeira and many places beyond. With a love for cultural heritage and an insightful eye, she brings a lyrical voice to her writing. Her tales celebrate the everyday magic of travel-those fleeting moments of connection and humour, together with joy or fear experienced in the unexpected, all of which make the vast world intimately familiar. Margaret's hope is you'll feel you're on holiday with her as you read. As a Quantity Surveyor, she spent most of her working life teaching others to follow in her footsteps - excluding the incident when she got stuck in mud on a building site and workmen had to lift her out of her wellie boots, which remained in the mud, much to their amusement and her embarrassment.