Homeward bound

The cost saving exercise of taking an indirect flight rather loses its appeal when we head off to the airport at midnight for our flight home at 0530. But we keep telling ourselves it was a BIG saving. Let's hope the return flights run more smoothly than the outbound. The flight from Colombo to Amman is on time so that's a start.

Colombo airport is a bit of a scrum. There's a security barrier before check-in which you can't get through until your flight is shown for check-in, in our case 2 hours 55 minutes before departure. We'd arrived earlier hoping to get some extra time in the lounge to have a nap. Eventually we make it to the lounge at 3.30 am only to find the TV blaring news of some Indian event at which some military people are shouting. We hope instead for comfy seats on the plane to get a good 5 hours or so of sleep.

Our luggage is checked all the way through to London. Let's see if it will make it ..... if it doesn't it will save Alison a lot of washing!

Putting aside the hassle of travelling Sri Lanka has been a great holiday. We've seen some of the historical sights, some of the animals - none of us have ever seen elephants in the wild before - and some of the living conditions that people in this country have to bear.

We would definitely come back here, perhaps for a tour of the southern part of the country and some more R&R by the beach.Read more