A work funded trip to conduct disaster recovery testing for our Sri Lankan Terminal Service cluster.

Today was the day that we really were going to see the elephants on a safari. We packed up and went down to breakfast before 7am. The buffet breakfast didn't have as large selection or was as nice as Mt. Lavinia, but it still filled us all up, and we all got up for seconds and thirds. We finished breakfast and checked out. The bus was already wa...

Today I had a very long day slated: a train ride that could take anything from 7 to 10 hours from Nuwara Eliya all the way to Colombo, a couple of hours to kill in the capital, and then heading out to the airport to catch my 3am flight and spend the whole of tomorrow flying. I was hoping there wouldn't be any repeats of my last train ride, and I...

January 22 2007 6.30am Morning prayer - Myanmar The prayer began with a candle dance by 3 Myanmar ladies. A doll that won't topple was used as a seldom of a sure stand up for justice. Small dolls were given away at the end of the prayer as symbolic gesture of solidarity for justice. We were also given a postcard produced by Myanmar EWA. 3rd Plen...

I left Winnipeg at NOON on Tuesday and arrived in Colombo at 4PM on Thursday. Nuff said. Highlights include 1. falling asleep with a glass of red wine in my hand (it mostly spilt on my blanket but regardless I smelt like a vat of rotten grapes for the remaining 25 hours of my journey) 2. staying awake for 15 of 16 hours in Heathrow Airport (one ...

Day 152 Sun 9th April 2006 My last day in Bangkok, and moving back to India. I had to check-out today at midday so I was up at 9am. I went to the laundry area to see if my whites had come out white yet, and the house-keeper had already rinsed them out and put them on the line for me, how nice is that? Both Derek and I were feeling a bit off key ...

The train journey straight through to Kandy would have been too much for us in one hit so we have decided to stop off in Colombo at the Renuka hotel to have a night of comfort - our room has television, hot water and bath tub!

I survived the long journey to Sri Lanka and, against all odds, also the taxi ride from the airport to the guesthouse in which I'm staying! The flights went quite well. I flew the last two segments with Qatar Airways and it was a truly enjoyable experience. The service was flawless, the hostesses were beautiful, the planes were modern and the fo...

Hi Everyone !(En francais ci-dessous) I'm very sorry that my last entry was solely in French, but I was just so exhausted that translating was just too much for me. So to apologize, the bulk of this message will be in Shakespeare's language. So what I was saying last time is that I visited the wonderful ancient cities of Sigiriya and Dambulla an...