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Helga's Folly (Kandy, Sri Lanka)
Description: Helga's Folly (Chalet Hotel) / Off Mahamaya Mawatha / Kandy / Tel: 0094 814 474314, 0094 812 234571 / Fax : 0094 814 ... more  Helga's Folly (Kandy, Sri Lanka) ... 479370 / Email: chalet@sltnet.lk.Newest Review: ... wax that it might have accumulated over the same timespan. No one who knows Helga’s Folly would be surprised if it ... more ... had.
Something by Cole Porter has taken over from Marlene, and appears to emanate from a hand-wound phonograph with an enormous curling megaphone for a speaker. Since the strains are continuous, and no one comes to wind the handle or change the record, this is presumably an illusion, although I would not be entirely surprised if the music were piped through from another room in which a similar machine was wound by hand, rather than from a modern electronic source.
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The décor, as described in the Visitors’ Book:
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Helga's Folly (Kandy, Sri Lanka): The Twain Meet (2134 words)
by duncantorr - written on 17/11/06 (Very useful, 515 readings)
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Unlikely meetings seem to be something of a theme at Helga’s Folly. Apart from East and West, glancing through the Visitors’ Book I found: “Alice in Wonderland meets Ella Fitzgerald.” “Brideshead Revisited meets Priscilla Queen of the Desert? I feel like I’m in a Ken Russell film – about the life of Marlene Dietrich starring Marianne Faithful!” “An eccentric collision between Fawlty Towers and Absolutely Fabulous.” * I was reading the Visitors’ Book as I took tea on the terrace. The sultry tones of Marlene Dietrich’s singing were indeed oozing out through the French windows from the salon behind me at that ...
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