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A thousand words
There have been far too many exceptional moments during this trip to pick a favorite in any category. The Singhalese people were happy and smiling, liked Americans, respected grandmothers and helped Carmen and I in any way they could. They were eager to share their remarkable country and heritage and proud of the variety that is within this one full-of-wonders island. A picture says a thousand words so I will attach several to this ...
Galle, a town of many sensations
Galle is in the southwest coast that was hard hit by the tsunami. I cannot look at the ocean here and not be reminded of the horrible videos on the nightly news in 2006. There was one report about 1000 people dying on a train as it ran along the ocean - that supposedly was near here. Obviously, I don't know what Galle looked like before, but I don't see very much damage remaining and they say that new construction is of better ...
Are you from Dubai?, You want tuk tuk? T-shirt?
... a few times by locals wanting us to come to their restaurant. Two local kids swimming in the water kept saying Helllo, Hello, Hello. We stopped at the very end of the point and had a swim. Unfortunately this stretch of the beach was covered with lots of rubbish especially lots of plastic bottles and it was filthy. The locals here do warn us not to go out to far when in the water. The water seemed ok but the beach was horrible. We had a swim ...
Fun and emotion
... book!!). Saturday was the best day ever we woke at 5.30am to get down to “Biscuit” point before it got busy and also because Amanda and Vera had a surf lesson at 6. We surfed for 3 hours so until 9 and then went for some much needed breakfast heading back in to the waves for another 2 half hours. Heading back to the hut at 2ish tierd and burnt we found our stray Trish who came to join us after travelling up north (co volunteer). She had met two ...
1st - 5th February
... girls in their pristine white uniforms, their long black hair in neat plaits with red ribbons, playing schoolyard games; local school boys in the school’s band marching through the streets as they practised for the Independence Day festivities on the 4th of February; families picnicking on the slopes of the ramparts, while fathers, brothers, uncles, nephews and cousins all played round after round ...