Aditya Galle
719/1 Galle Road, Devenigoda Galle, Sri Lanka
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Leopards-0 : Snakes-1
... Gravestones and overgrown abandoned buildings along the coastal highway were a sobering reminder of the catastrophe besieged upon communities. One resident of Galle shared his photo album with us that chronicled the days following the tsunami. Water churning in the streets, people marooned on rooftops, and buses and boats which found the same resting place pushed up against buildings. All the time we were on the coast I admit to have a slightly uneasy feeling when I look out to ...
The Great Tsumini of 2011
... because they were afraid the wind would knock there tuk-tuk over if the wind caught them sideways.
One french guy still got internet on his iPhone and we were keeping an eye on a storm that the radar showed to be tightening into a pinwheel shape and was covering a huge chunk of the Indian Ocean. And us. Apparently typhoons, as hurricanes in the Indian Ocean are called, don't hit Sri Lanka. Or at least they never had before. But the tsunami ...
Orphanage update
... idea, necessary items such as nappies, soap, washing powder, floor cleaner, antibiotic creams, you expect them to have all the time but at times they do not. So I took a trip in to town and bought all the necessary items:
- 15 bars of antibacterial soap
- 10 tubes of antibiotic cream
- 56 Nappies
-5kg of washing machine powder
- A giant bar of clothes hand washing soap, and three little ones.
-2 bottles of floor cleaner
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Arrival and decision making! Do I dont I Do I dont
... was a little bit emotional and also the second feeling jet lagged and overwhelmed by sun and Culture. My days in Hikkaduwa were certainly spent melting on the beach, factor 50 all the way. On my last night in Hikkaduwa I met 4 Canadians who were staying in the rooms next to me we shared the most amazing curry ever, of which the lady who owns the guest house cooked for us. The next day me and Caroline (one of the Canadians) went in to town to buy ...
Galle Sri Lanka
... balcony and free Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi is a very rare thing in this country. That is the reason for the long gaps between blogs. I would imagine it will be even harder to find it in Burma, but we shall see. As it happens I have worked out a way of writing blogs to Email and saving them to draft and in this way I can copy them over when I get the internet again. Meaning I can still write blogs, not only when I have the net. Clever eh ...



