boots, pack, zimmer...
Here we go again
Two years on and we’re back on the road – Sri Lanka this time. Beaches first, then maybe some hill walking, then ancient monuments in the interior, then perhaps some more beaches. And whatever else comes our way, hey hey hey. (Also available without the blah blah blah, at anassandadonkey.com.)
Over breakfast our host, working through a massive pile of curry (“Work hard, eat lots!”), told us his backstory. Joined the navy at 18, at 29 he was sent on a two week...
My first truly terrible night’s sleep since we arrived, the bed having all the comfy snugness of a slab of granite with a sheet on, but I did feel a bit bad after our host directly...
Got a tuk tuk from the hotel (left a half-decent review after I calmed down), and the driver asked where we were going. We said Dambulla, and he dropped us off right by the right bus....
Full on day today. Started out by taking a trip to the local wildlife park, where we hired a couple of bikes and set off down the wibbly-wobbly path, initially seeing bugger all by...
The one thing you really have to do in Kandy is visit the Temple of The Tooth. The tooth, that is to say, that was retrieved from the funeral pyre of the Buddha, and transported via...
Oh yes. Another travelling day today. Couldn’t get any kind of sense out of Google, which seems somehow to be oblivious to the fact that the massive storms of a couple of months...