Pot of tea on arrival at all guesthouses I like tea. Who doesn’t? Not anyone worth knowing. Therefore, it is delightful to be welcomed at every, and I mean every, guesthouse with a pot, not a cup, but a pot, and a nice china pot at that, of delicious tea. I think on two occasions it was tea bags, thus we only stayed there one night, but every other time it was real actual proper tea. How civilised. Markets It’s hard not to compare Sri Lanka to India. I know you shouldn’t as Sri Lanka is its own place, but you do. And generally, Sri Lanka compares extremely favourably. Especially in markets. There is the colour and the bustle and cheap prices of India without the stench and the open drains, the
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