1. People start asking you to broaden your horizons in terms of your vacation spots
2. Random beach boys know you by name, offer you cigarettes & ask you how your dogs are
3. You know random beach boys by name and actually enjoy their company
4. You even know the names of the beach boys dogs
5. You sit your ass down, slap bang in the centre of the bay and can stay there forever
6. You suddenly find the down-south Sinhala dialect creeping into your conversation. Gedara yanawei?
7. Paying for a room is at the rate you decide
8. You actually get a good night’s sleep irrespective of the fact that you’re an incurable insomniac
9. It seems strange not to fall asleep or wake up to the sound of waves lulling
10. Your wrists & ankles haven’t seen the light of day because of all the friendship bands you’ve tied on them, marking the number of times you’ve come here
11. Sand between your ass cheeks seems perfectly normal
12. You have a gag reflex at the smell of bananas, but you eat banana fritters as your staple diet when you’re here
13. You think wind-surfing looks like having sex, only better. Poetry in motion, I tell ya.
14. It’s only June and you’ve been outstation 11 times this year already and 10 of those visits were to Una.
15. Oh yeah… and you refer to it as Una instead of its proper name. If you’re nicknaming something, it’s gotta mean something.
Lucky you!
I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never been to Unawatuna!
However, after reading your many posts on the place, it sounds like a “must go to place”!
aww… so so true. i just got back from Unawatuna. stayed at the Happy Banana and i thought of you and Princess Martha:)
As suddas say, Una-war-toona
i’ve always said that everyone should become fishermen. free food, strange people on the beach, moral fiber creation, sun tans and sand in ass cheeks. as an initiative in my ‘people should go fish’ program i’m training my 1 year old pouting niece on our fish tank. i just hope this turns out better than my ‘lets all go fly a kite’ push
yes, it grows pon u. i just learnt how to snorkel and am hooked. bloody ikiri though. someone should train those guys to answer room reservations over the phone properly. one woman at Wijya beach. picks up the phone. “We need to rent a room” “Ha! if you want to talk about that, you need to speak to my boss! wait i’ll get him (curses under her breath “trying to book a room. the nerve…
NICE
Thanks all.
Resident Princess – I sincerely hope you do go there. You’ll love it.
Delilah – Ah… my place of peace. The Happy Banana is the best place to stay and the people who run it are nice as hell.
You must not forget: receiving ‘ah kohomada?’ calls from our favourite beach boy