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Unawatuna – out and about
folk museum The French Lotus Today we moved from the French Lotus to the Santori hotel just down the road. Booking.com had told us that there were no rooms available at the FL for the next two days and Steve was quite relieved as he wasn’t getting on with just a fan to cool us…
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Unawatuna
Had the most incredible breakfast today. Didn’t start well as I couldn’t find the “dining room” but at least as I wandered around I found some monkeys. They are very well behaved and stay in the trees instead of raiding people breakfasts. Must be very tempting for them as there is always a banana in…
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Mirissa/Unawatuna
All good things have to come to an end – why? That’s what I’m asking myself, now ensconced in Unawatuna. Don’t get me wrong, if we’d arrived here first, we’d probably have been most impressed. A sweeping crescent of beach, perfectly clean sea, reasonably sensible development. What’s not to like? But it’s not Mirissa. Compared…
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The life of dogs
Dogs are a significant part of the Sri Lankan traveller experience. Ignored by Sri Lankans, the dogs run their own lives and have their own rules. They see “foreigners” as people to latch on to, sources of food and comfort. The small beach we frequent is run by 2 dog gang mafias. There is a…
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Heaven
What a wonderful day! Started off with a breakfast of fresh fruit followed by three banana and honey pancakes. I love pancakes. Next we pottered down to the beach in front of our accommodation and set up camp next to some fishing boats. A much quieter beach than Mirissa, there were just a handful of…
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Mirrisa
Shan’t miss the Raveena guest house. All our stuff feels damp and there is no comfort here at all. Steve was kept awake by the revolting smell coming from the bathroom. The bathroom window looks directly out onto the breakfast cooking area and there is no soundproofing. Yuk! We shared our taxi with Max and…
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Let’s get the Ella out of here
After a very disturbed night listening to whining dogs, trains, coughing and chanting (actually the chanting was fine) we got up and had yet another Sri Lankan breakfast. Chatted to the other guests. That is the one thing I really enjoy about the guest house accommodation, you do meet other people who have interesting stories…
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What could possibly go wrong? -Ella
Everything went to plan this morning. Leisurely getting up time, legs feeling fine after last night, tuktuk man early, at station early, on train to Ella – what could possibly go wrong? The train journey to Ella was intended to be one of the highlights of our trip, a slow meander through beautiful scenery taking…
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Kandy-Adam’s Peak
The manager of our hotel does like a chat and he stayed and talked to us while we ate breakfast. It meant I had to eat a slightly under cooked egg which I’d normally give to Steve – gah! At least it wasn’t yesterday or I’d have had to eat the onion pancake. Our first…
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Kandy
After finally getting rid of my hangover headache and pledging allegiance to the “I’m never drinking again, at least not until tomorrow” club, it was time for breakfast. All very nice apart from the caramelised onions and pancake. Steve, rather nastily, pretended to enjoy his but really only wanted to see the look on my…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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