Tatler Traveller Philippines

Just the Three of Us

Every year, my family and I enjoy the Christmas holiday seeing the world. Last December called for a particularly special trip as I was seven months pregnant, and it was the last time we would travel as a family of three—me, my husband Chris and our three-year-old daughter Andrea.

We decided to travel to Sri Lanka, a place I’d always wanted to visit. I’d been wanting to go to India for the longest time, and I’d heard Sri Lanka would be a good introduction to India—an India Lite, so to speak.

It was Christmas Day when we left. After having Christmas lunch with Chris’s family, we flew to Sri Lanka via Singapore, arriving in Colombo late in the

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