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Here we go

This being more or less a diary of our wanderings, working back from most recent to most distant. Hence, below, the finale to our recent travels in Sri Lanka.

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Giant baobob tree, Delft island, Sri Lanka
Sore bums and baobobs
Still on the island. It’s just so chill! Said goodbye after breakfast to our young friend from Belfast, who’s out here digital nomad-stylie, working from two till ten every...
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Local fishermen, Delft Island, Sri Lanka
All the wild horses
After the madness of yesterday we decided to make today a chill day. Ish. These things are relative. We love Delft. The island is proper special, with a wildness and a peace and a calming...
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Beach blaze from Village Stay, Delft Island, Sri Lanka
Out to the island
Day got off a really bad start. Which is to say, it started at 5.30 am. We needed to get up at sparrow fart because there’s only one ferry a day to Delft and it leaves at 8:30...
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Painter's salute, Jaffna, Sri Lanka
A day 'oop north
In truth, there’s not a great deal by way of ‘sights’ in Jaffna. There used to be a lot more. I learned from Google that before the civil war, Jaffna was Sri Lanka’s...
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Bus's view of lorry, Sri Lanka
Ho yus, back on the bus
Another farcical start to the day. Google said we needed the 57 or the 87 to go to Jaffna, (the train is another one that’s been taken out by the typhoons, or we’d definitely...
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Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Which way's the beach, bro?
Only kidding, but…there comes a point where a little voice in your head mutters ‘…and if I see one more reclining Buddha…’ But you can’t come all...
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