Sunday 9th April Arrived in Colombo Sri Lanka early in the morning……the Veranda Cafe opened for breakfast at 6am and we had to leave the ship at 6.45…..so set the alarm for 5am!! What a shock to the system…..we had been warned not to take any photos dockside, because of “security issues” our bus was then “escorted” by police out of the Port area. We drove through Colombo, and I suppose it was pretty much what I expected, poverty, filth, beggars, people sleeping along the streets, skinny dogs etc etc….but is still a bit of a shock to see it all. One thing I hadn’t expected was armed guards all along the streets, carrying pretty nasty looking weapons, and sand bag bunkers here and there with armed guards in them…..Got to the railway station, and had
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