Week One
Mount Breeze hotel, Ella 19c and tipping down I'm wearing socks First things first, trying to get the keyboard to attach to the phone AND find a comfortable position in which to type. Some things are never easy. We arrived January 1st after a gruelling 32 hour journey beginning with a 3.5 hour coach trip from Bristol to Heathrow. It ended with us arriving in Negombo at 7pm the following day. It was dark, and raining but 25c, so that's alright then. These days we like to take a day or two to settle in to a country, get over the jet lag and get our heads around the money, climate and general ambience of the place. It was 1990 and the civil war was raging the last time we were here, the population has grown from 17mn in the early 90s to almost 23mn today, they've had the devastation of the tsunami in 2004 plus all the government ills of two years ago. The people of Sri Lanka are paying the price for a reckless, corrupt government is the story we are hear...