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High tea in Sri Lanka's Hill Country

Lush lawns and eccentricity

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

In the bar of the Hotel Suisse, perched above the lake in Kandy (pictured), high up in Sri Lanka’s Hill Country, a driver touting for business smiles to reassure me that the British ‘left us many good things’. Trains, roads, the English language. And cricket, I remind him, ‘Oh yes, sir, cricket.’

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