Category: My blog
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Wilpattu and Mihintale
Up at 4.30am for the safari at Wilpattu national park. It was a very chilly tuktuk ride to the park. Took a good hour. Our jeep driver was a very handsome, petite young man. We were quite surprised and pleased when our tuktuk driver came too! Well as I suspected, every other person saw a…
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The Old City
A s advised by the hotel manager, we were up early to miss the heat of the day while cycling around the old city. The breakfast coffee was a real effort to drink. The water here tastes disgusting. Obviously I wouldn’t drink it straight from the tap, but even boiled it tastes like musty old…
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Negombo – Anuradhapura
Negombo- Anuradhapura Very loud music last night until 12.30am. I mean loud – window shakingly loud. Anyway, plus points I read lots of my book. Today we hired a taxi to get to Anuradhapura. There is an ancient city which you can cycle around and also a game park nearby. The journey took about 3.5…
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Negombo
Great night’s sleep which was surprising after a flying /travel day. Maybe it was the samplings of local Lion beer which did the trick. Breakfast included coconut and honey pancakes served with tiny bananas – delicious. Spent the day wandering the streets of Negombo. This is not easy as there are tuk-tuks, bicycles and motorbikes…
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Moral no. 1. Never be complacent
As we had a whole day to kill before our 10pm flight with Sri Lankan airways and all our packing etc was done, we decided to pop out and buy a new microwave. (As you do.) While shopping, we bumped into our neighbours who commented on how relaxed we looked considering we were flying that…
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Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka
It’s been a while since our Oz Odyssey and the feet are getting itchy! Plus the fact it’s been horribly cold here in dear Old Blighty, so it’s time to pack the bags and set off for sunnier climes. Why Sri Lanka? No particular reason really, other than lots of good reports and a very…
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Day out to Kailua
Woke up to showers today which didn’t bode well for my planned excursion to Kailua. Still, we’re British and a bit of rain doesn’t stop play. The drizzle increased once we were on the bus and the mountains in the heart of the island were hardly visible. However, once we arrived in Kailua the rain…
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Honolulu continued
Found the PMA difficult to come by this morning when woken at 6 am by over excited American whooping noises. I don’t know whether it was “Woohoo! I’ve been up all night and I’m such a bad ass!”or “woohoo! I’m at boot camp doing my workout!” Either way I’m not interested and shut up. Why…
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Honolulu Blues
Time for the bad pennies to move on again. Never nice leaving, but made worse for me as I picked up some virus and felt very unwell indeed. Still, we had a flight to Honolulu to catch so after another emotional parting from the Ozlings, Saturday saw us at Brisbane airport for the fifth time.…
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Bad pennies/boomerangs
Kept waking up throughout the night. Heard the wind howling but didn’t hear rain. Got up at 5am to a text message from the airport saying high tides will cause the roads to be very flooded at 4am and get as close as possible to the airport. Shit! Taxi driver was supposed to pick us…
Middle-aged flash packers 