24 Nov. Jaffna to Kandy

I think I'm getting 'trench foot'. My second best trainers are letting in water. And there's a lot of it about.
Up around Jaffna, there's marsh land and flood plains for miles and miles. Now this might be picturesque at another time of year, but the rain! The damned rain, downpours, showers, drizzle, precipitation, heavy mist.
I planned this trip for the end of the monsoon season. Just goes to show, you shouldn't trust everything you read on t'internet.
I have to apologise again for the poor showing of photos. Today was a long travel day and left my camera in my rucksack. I couldn't even read for fear of getting travel sick. ('A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini, seeing as you asked. So far, it's v. depressing. I'm waiting for at least one splendid sun to come out.)
I was planning on going straight from Jaffna to Colombo, where the weather should be better. However, it's a heck of a bus ride and the train would have been even longer. I could have stayed in Jaffna for a couple more days, but the prospect of pretty much continual rain made my mind up. So I diverted to Kandy. At leat I know what I'm getting into there.
A few brief observations:
A bit disconcertingly was that I've been staying in room 101.
Almost all the dogs here appear to be descended from one dominant dingo-like, fawn mutt.
It's no surprise they can grow just about anything here; continual steady rainfall and a good amount of sun between showers.
Today's was apparently a Hindu bus crew. They've usually been Buddhists.Read more