Took a bus to Kurunegala, it was a three to four hour journey on a medium sized rickety old government bus which I guess could be 25 years old. It stopped allot and had 30 seats all occupied. Some seats with two occupants when you include mother and child. For parts of the journey there was up to 70 people standing in the isle. The journey was a little uncomfortable, but I insist on travelling the way the locals do. The difference between English urban sprawl and Sri Lankan is more colour, noise, dirt than you can imagine – each small house has a unique touch, some homes double up as a grocery store, or hardware and various unimaginable combinations and it continued for mile after mile along the heavily congested road out of Negombo. Later
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