20 Nov 2025

Back on the road again.
I reckon three days in Kandy was enough. Four might be too many.
Some observations:
Yeah, it grew on me a little. I can see why travellers gravitate here: The lake, a few interesting Buddhist complexes. But the weather! It's alternate sunshine and horrendous downpours. The I did my 'extensive online research' we should've been just about done with the monsoon season. Ha! The climate change excuse must've kicked in..
Anyway, today was more or less taken up with travelling to Anuradhapura. I continually have trouble spelling that name correctly - and I'm not wholly convinced I've got it mastered yet.
Yes, me too. I'd never heard of it before. Thinks of it this way: Sri Lanka is roughly about the size of Wales (The international measurement of area.) Whereas Kandy is about 1 third up from the bottom of the island, A... is just about 1 third from the top.
The bus journey was almost exactly 4 1/2 hours. Not bad considering, but then I'm getting blaze about awful bus journeys.
We I finally arrived in A... it was raining of course. A series of garbled WahtsApp messages and calls with the manager of my digs for the next three nights managed to sort out a tuk tuk to come and pick me up from the bus station. To my alarm, the place was quite a way from the city centre. Looks like I'll be relying on tuk tuks a bit more to get around. However, the place is actually very nice - probably the best 'homestay' I've stayed in so far in Sri Lanka. It seems that I have a whole 2 bed apartment to myself.
Well, it's dark now, and I haven't had any ice cream. Let's see tomorrow if A... lives up to the hype.Read more