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.
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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.
Visit Margaret’s Facebook page and see a video of her travels.
Review of From Sri Lanka with Love in Life and Work.
Portobello Book Blog interview with Margaret about From Sri Lanka with Love
J Kelly –
An uplifting travel log enabling reader escapism plus a belief that we could do this too!
The author’s words transport in a way that travel books for me should, to incredible and exotic far away places. Escapism for readers was aplenty but the author also offered realisation that this kind of travel is achievable rather than just a dream. It is an account of the joys of local family holidays too, which many at this challenging time (2020) are discovering. Travelling niggles are thoroughly shaded by friendships and fun. While some descriptions made me think, “Rather you than me!” the majority was an exciting invitation. This book inspires me to look afresh at places both near and far that I would love to explore. The author’s tapestry of tales provides an inspirational pattern from which I can create my own.
D. Scott –
The book is a super read!!
The author has woven so many holiday adventures to indeed create a tapestry of holiday tales.
A. Arthur –
Thoroughly enjoyed this book so different from my usual murder – thrillers that I read. It was well named a tapestry of holidays just like stitches which are sewn to-gether so were the holidays from one end of the world to the other whether with family or friends. Good memories of holidays which are adventurous and cherished. As I read this book it was obvious to me that Margaret and I have something in common apart from loving our holidays “ice-cream” love it – except chocolate ice-cream. The book is a good escapism from all the problems we are experiencing at this time.
Anne Samson –
Review in Life and Work – https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3456513957777809&set=a.1040080606087835
Irene –
I enjoyed reading this book. It transported me with laughter to lovely places I would never be able to visit. Because I know the family I pictured their various exploits with delight.
Liz –
This book gives a vivid description of SRI Lanka and also travelling to other exotic destinations. We learn about different cultures and customs. It is also an easy read and told with heartfelt honesty and humour. It may give readers inspiration to do such holidays.. it is a most enjoyable read filled with happiness.
Vickie –
A lovely easy to read book with great detail. A real sense of an exciting and enjoyable trip to Sri Lanka and great memories of other family trips in various corners of the world.
The author portrays a picture of fun and happy times.
A great insight into holidaying in the Far East.
I especially loved the holiday tales of Kippford an area very close to my heart.
AnneS –
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AnneS –
https://shelflifebookreview.com/2021/06/29/from-sri-lanka-with-lovea-tapestry-of-travel-tales/