Goodbyes and Lampries

Thursday morning we had to say goodbye to our Sri Lankan family. Although we were a bit daunted by the prospect of being in a busy local household when we arrived, we have thoroughly enjoyed it.

The Wickramasinghe family have been kind to us and put up with our strange foreign ways the whole time. We were very sad to leave them behind!

One of our last meals with them our host ma and pa made lampries, a Sri Lankan / Dutch invention. It is meat curry wrapped in a banana leaf packet and baked.

Here Amma and Thatha demonstrate the wrapping method:

Clean banana leaves from the garden,


.... heat them over the wood stove to soften,


.... cut to size,


... and put in the curry to wrap up.

Thanks to them we have been well fed and healthy throughout our time in SL.

And the lampries were delicious!