Why Sri Lanka?

 

   We, Oscar and Marijke, grew up in the Netherlands. In 2016 we came back to Amsterdam after having lived abroad for 20 years. The last 8 years of our foreign adventure we stayed in Singapore, just a 3 hour flight away from Sri Lanka. We are a family of five that loves to travel around the world to experience the cultural differences.

    More than 30 years ago when it was just the two of us we travelled to Sri Lanka for a holiday without any preparation. We didn't even bring a lonely planet, at the time it was our travel bible. It was a last minute decision.

Without any expectations we started our trip and found out that it became one of our best holidays ever. People were very, very friendly, the food was very tasty, the variety of the country really appealed to us (cultural triangle, tea plantations, beautiful beaches, etc.) and we loved the Dutch heritage buildings we saw during our trip. Years later we decided to bring our children to Sri Lanka and we again enjoyed it so much that we decided to contact some real estate agents during our trip. We had spend a few days looking at heritage buildings in the province of Galle, because that was originally the idea, to renovate a heritage building. All the houses that we saw unfortunately were not well plotted on their piece of land, difficult to enlarge, etc. So we decided to look for plots of land to build our own 'heritage building'. We immediately fell in love with a plot of land, overlooking paddy fields with palm trees bending over the grass. That was more than 10 years ago and in the mean time we have built our house, our home away from home, integrating a lot of old building materials adding loads of charm and character. 

We can see ourselves as retirees seated on the veranda and spending our time watching the paddy fields, the water buffalos and the many beautiful birds passing by. Until that time we would like our house to accommodate as many people as possible to experience the same as we always do in beautiful Sri Lanka! Enjoy!