Lanka Paradise Hikkaduwa

... mon linge (ca yest il sent moins le moisi!) et boire un the en lisant la troisieme partie de Millenium. La internet, puis bang lassi (lassi+weed) au meme endroit que mon roti ce midi, puis vais aller manger au restau allonge sur mes coussins a boire des mojitos et finir ma weed avant de partir demain pour Negombo. Snif. Mercredi matin depart de mon avion a 7h15 pour l'Inde, donc petite nuit en perspective. Jsuis un peu vert de partir car il fait de plus en plus beau ...

... me rincer, et mange mon curry, pas tres bon mais pas cher du tout. Puis la pluie se remet a tomber, attendons une accalmie pour aller voir le temple au bout de la plage et escalader jusqu'a la dagoba. Bien sur il se remet a pleuvoir, prenons quelques photos et descendons par des rochers, escalade perilleuse surtout en tongs... Escaladons un mur et passons a travers le ...

... a good breaking wave will come along. Certainly many surf-able waves have been breaking on the beach, but they mostly break at once, not good for anything better than a momentary ride after a maximum effort. Too much work for not enough reward. These old fellows are absolutely right, which is why I myself have retired from the waves, at least for this place and for this year. I know my limits, and had to, after much thought, abandon a practice that gives no practice. . . Stepping on ...

... petrol, and tastes just ever so slightly better. If there is any left over, it probably will run the rickshaw down to the bottle shop for another. . . Another quality of Arrack is that you can drink plenty of it and not foresee the after-effects, so there being a "party" down the beach a click or so, I soon found myself at the bar, drinking lion beer and of course, more of the Arrack. Soon after that I found myself walking home on the beach as the sun was ...

... the weird thing is that you do. There you are, standing on your board. Unless you're Tom. In which case you don't stand up and, rightly, question why. And spend the rest of the evening drinking beer and demonstrating your push up technique on the floor of restaurants until someone confirms that there ain't no getting up no way no how when you're that tall. Finally, a sport where being a shortarse is an advantage.

Today I have headed down the western coast of Sri Lanka from Negombo to Hikkaduwa, and it is amazing! Colombo was quite frightening but you can read about that in my travelpod. Tonight, I sat at a restaurant with my feet in the sand and had a prawn cocktail and fried calamari with salad and chips - and it all cost me just US$7 ...

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... mainly for its fantastic food and to be entertained by their lovely staff, one of whom looked like the James Bond baddie Tic Tac. Pretty much everywhere else was empty, which is a shame because the locals could really do with the trade. Hikkaduwa and Narigama were hit badly by the Tsunami and everything has been rebuilt, but according to the locals they are not receiving as much funding from the government as they should be. It's sad that on top ...

Hi Again We've been pretty busy this last week sorting out our flight details to and from the various cities. For the last few days we have been in the South of Sri Lanka in a place called Hikkaduwa. The place has some excellent coral reefs apparently and thousands of types of fish but because of the monsoon the water is too rough to see it properly. The sri Lankan people have been really friendly to us which is even more ...

... and asked us to remove our sandals to check for leeches. "Not dangerous - unless they crawl up your leg" he said picking leeches from Jo's feet. She only had four but I won with five including one that had been there long enough to draw blood. Back in the rickshaw I found another. After that experience we felt a little drained so had some lunch and went straight back to the hotel. Actually, I have had a great time in Sri Lanka and intend to visit again with more time and a pair of wellies.