No Teardrops In This Pearl...

But give it to the Sri Lankans - they still enjoy life. Traditionally, the Sinhalese spirit is made up of equal parts of joie de vivre and easygoing buoyancy. Fuelling this now, in urban Colombo, is a new middle class of affluence. They sustain, and are in turn sustained by, spanking new shopping arcades, food marts and watering holes of world class quality.