Met three best friends from Italy on a train in Sri Lanka, took a couple of my favourite photos from the whole month away. We got along, they taught me a card game I’d never seen before (in their third language, bravo), and we smoked knock off Marlboro golds out the open doors as the mountains and waterfalls and towns and some of the most spectacular sites id ever witnessed raced by. We ended up surfing, touring, and eating together, and they rescued me when I broke my nose in the water on my last morning (thanks boys). They were so different from one another yet so in tune I could hardly imagine them being apart. Their friendship reminded me so much of my own with my two best friends, who I was travelling with. Like holding up a mirror and looking at a version of myself in another life.
Don’t listen to your mum, talking to strangers in foreign countries has only ever turned out great for me. Maybe I’m just lucky.
Shot on my trusty Pentax Spotmatic on Portra 400
November lessons include (but are not limited to) the following;
1. Sometimes you just can’t predict the weather
2. Fortune cookies are rarely wrong
3. Puppies pull on leashes until taught otherwise
4. Patience is rarely comfortable
5. Everything is a performance (will not elaborate further)
6. Olives are best enjoyed warmed !!!
7. A pedicure isn’t as scary as it seems and neither is having ticklish feet (be strong)
8. Hair is not that important or permanent
9. Making your Mum a cup of tea is a simultaneous gesture of love for another and an act of self care
10. Emails are not that scary….
11. Gluten free bread from the supermarket is not worth $12
12. The number 13 was never unlucky and we have all been lied to
13. Love is all you need
