• An executive decision dayNot going out

    April 19, 2025 in Sri Lanka ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    I was forced to make the executive decision this morning to stay at the hotel following a trip to the bathroom...which our tour guide calls the happy room!
    Use your imagination as to why ....
    The tour guide assured me that there were many happy rooms at today's venues but I had to say ...what happens if I become. Unhappy between stops !🤣..
    so I stayed in and did some planning for further parts of this trip.
    This evening I was able to go to the vigil Mass at Kandy Cathedral
    It was very interesting..hymns I'd not sung since prep school , parts of the Mass in sung Latin.. lots of altar boys 5 priests and the readings done in English Sunhali and Tamil .lots of excessive bell rings by the altar boys...Nuns all in the proper outfit in white !
    Kneeling for holy communion received by mouth only
    We emerged 2.5hrs later !
    My concerns this morning didn't fully materialise ...thankfully !

    Todays Photos are a collection over past few days that not put on so far.
    The video is of the street where the current hotel is situated. The noise is from the people waiting to see the Buddha's tooth relic ....apparently the queue is 6km.long ... they are crammed together like sardines it's surreal!
    I'm confident il be ok for tomorrow and just managed to get some proper milk from the reception through out tour guide so Yorkshire tea and sleep. We are on the move again tomorrow..
    Every now and then I get to eat familiar food...baked beans, chips , bacon , I found laughing cow cream cheese triangles rich tea biscuits...honestly they taste absolutely incredible, just because of the familiarity of them ..not making me home sick tho ...
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