Blue Oceanic Beach Negombo

... les autres m'ont invite a leur table et nous avons cause, enfin surtout le vieux, de ses aventures autour du monde dans sa vie passee. En une heure on a vide 2 bouteilles d'Harrak, a 38 degres quand meme. Ai bu mon bang lassi, pas mauvais. Andreas est passe devant sur ces entrefaits et nous l'avons invite a nous rejoindre fumer un bedo. Puis sommes partis tous les deux, et je pense que le bang lassi a commence a faire ...

... that has inspired me throughout my career in journalism has been that of the German theologian, Martin Niemöller. In his youth he was an antisemite and an admirer of Hitler. As nazism took hold of Germany, however, he saw nazism for what it was. It was not just the Jews Hitler sought to extirpate, it was just about anyone with an alternate point of view. Niemöller spoke out, and for his trouble was incarcerated in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau ...

... and bars are open- alcohol is banned from sale but we found one barmen who offered to drop his morals for the business, so we drunk vodka on the sly in the back of the restaurant- there was nothing else to do, we couldn't shop everything was shut and we couldn't sunbathe cause the men pounce!) i decided i would cut my hair myself, well what a state- Helen hasn't stopped laughing since, i could only reach half my head so some of it is chopped into, some ...

... akorat mozna Malajsko ho ma vic... Na letiste sme dojeli na cas. Kdyz sme z garaze vesli do haly, byla tam hromada budek vod ruznej autobusovejch spolecnosti...jedna z nich ta nase. Vleteli sme tam a rikam jim co nam to provedli, ze nam mohlo uletet letadlo a podavam jim listky...seslo se tam par maniku a konecne sme se dohodli, ze ten autobus vopravdu nevodjel a ze sme museli priject jinym.....jeden z nich si vzal ty nase listky a zacal vazne rozmlouvat do dvou ...

... as oruwas. They are distinctive catamarans (a word derived from the Tamil ketti-maran) fashioned from a hollowed-out trunk attached to an enormous sail. With less than a day to spare before moving onto Colombo, I politely declined, but not before the strapping and deeply tanned fisherman spent some while describing how his tourist trade had been almost terminally hit by the Tsunami and equally debilitating civil war largely carried out in the north and east (more ...

... and put it on the counter before I made the exchange. It turned out to be only a Rupee per dollar less than the national bank's rate, so all in all a success. **** the Hilton. My few hours wandering made me glad I opted against staying in Colombo; Kandy is much more pleasant, cleaner, and cooler... and small enough that after a day the touts recognize you as the guy who refused them earlier and pretty much leave you alone.

... duck duck goose" and "fruit salad" were introduced to Sri Lanka. They could have played them for hours. When you have 35 kids running about, 15minutes is quite enough per games. Also played "musical bumps" and "pass the ball". I love the organized chaos of Wednesday afternoons, but it is good that it's only a weekly ...

... limited tourist wise - there are army/security personel with AK47 guns everywhere, road blocks, checkpoints, trying to hunt out the Tamil Tigers suicide bombers that blight this city on a regular basis. It also meant we were not allowed to take photos of anything to do with the ...

... issues. Could we identify gaps? So next time we might re-imagine the theme. Bernardeen: Is this to remain a theological exercise? Are we not going back to our own situations? Is this just an isolated situation? We have to have a vision for moving forward. We have to be clear in our minds about what we want. Virginia: Handing over to Evelyn... Evelyn: Confusion is healthy. Let us keep thinking. The purpose of this half hour was to synthesize. We should be stimulated to ...

... kept disappointing us, on a truly incredible scale, we kept having to try new places. A quick run-down, then: Cormoran Restaurant: We walked into the restaurant where a local gent was eating some rather tasty looking calamari curry and rice. I said "can we have what he's having?" (trying not to sound too much like an extra from Harry Met Sally). The waiter said "yes". The waiter then proceeded to bring us devilled squid (a completely ...