October 21st 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Unawatuna
This next entry comes many days after the last. In this small of town of Unawatuna, life has become very slow - such a contrast from the first week here. The days have been filled with lounging and re ... 24 photos [full story]

October 20th 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Unawatuna
Ok, final post and possibly some of the best pictures. After an 11 hour drive from Horton Plains we arrived at Unawatuna at 1 am. This is a beach hot spot and for good cause. The beach is is amazing. ... 8 photos [full story]

September 20th 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Galle
So long, farewell, auf wierdersehen, goodbye! The boys at the pool planted a fruit tree and called it The Skipper tree at the pool so they could remember me every day. It really was incredible tou ... 6 photos [full story]

June 30th 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Unawatuna
28 June Much better weather today. I went for walk to the pagoda/temple this morning and sat at watched the water blowing into the blow hole, which is where Sunset Point is as well, a very nice sp ... 3 photos [full story]

June 30th 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Unawatuna
As I sit on balcony at different times of the day there is any number of people walking past selling all sorts of things. We have the Maalu (fish) man selling his catch from the mornings run, we have ... 2 photos [full story]

June 26th 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Galle
25 June No more Sri Lankan army wake up calls, just the monkeys as usual! For the past few days I have been at the pool with the Sri Lankan coaches and Dharmadasa! The coaches are really nice g ... 3 photos [full story]

June 21st 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Galle
We arrived in Galle, and got a tuk tuk round Fort to Khalid’s guest house. We had to direct the driver, and felt on familiar territory especially as the 3 wheeler turned into the fort, and swun ... 7 photos [full story]

June 15th 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Matara
Photos to follow - dodgy web connection out east! We spent two and a half relatively uneventful days on the beach, in a splendid hotel complex in which we took a upstairs downstairs cabana. The bo ... [full story]

June 15th 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Unawatuna
Journey into Sri Lanka 13 June After an odd start at the Sunflower Hotel, Negombo which is no longer the Sunflower, but the Paradise (they changed the name but didn’t tell anyone, even the ... 2 photos [full story]

June 10th 2009  Asia » Sri Lanka » Southern Province » Matara
After a hectic few weeks, and a couple of major changes of climate, wet zone to dry zone and back again there was something reassuring about returning to Colombo. The boys were both suffering a littl ... 7 photos [full story]