As Sri Lanka's best-known beach towns grow busier, travellers are looking further along the coastline. In Rekawa, just beyond Tangalle, the opportunity is not to create another tourism hub, but to protect what makes going further worthwhile.

Investment is a difficult word in Sri Lanka. On one hand, it has brought capital, restoration, jobs, new businesses and fresh energy to parts of the country that badly need economic momentum.

Every airport in the world sells the same lie in a slightly different accent. A magnet. A keyring. A miniature something, shrink-wrapped, made in a factory several thousand kilometres from the place it claims to represent. You buy it because you feel you should bring something home, and by the time you're back on your own sofa, it's already migrated