Our first night at The Hotel Suisse in Kandy. Seems like we have been here for ages. Tim by woken at 4am by a mosquito - just the one very noisy one. 9am and time for breakfast. I had a pulverised fruit. Tim was more adventurous. To be honest I was still full of curry from the day before.
After a planning meeting we got a tuk tuk 6,000 rupees (I think the hotel takes a cut). They are little three wheeled vehicles, bit like being driven around by a lawn mower. To The Royal Botanical Gardens we went. They are suffering with draught so it was not was lush as it could have been. The trees were amazing but the monkeys and chipmonks were more entertaining. I was a bit unsure about the huge bats flying around the treetops. We seemed a little vulnerable walking beneath. I sampled another fresh tropical fruit juice which is so thick the straw stands up. Tim had tea served with warm long life milk - interesting. Many happy sweaty hours later we returned to Kandy by tuk tuk this time 3,500 rupees.
Merrily wandering the streets fending off invitations to buy almost anything we ended up in The Pub verandah people watching while being refreshed with Lion Larger and a snack of battered yummy prawns.
Dinner was a few snakes from a bakery costing the mighty sum of £2 including cakes.
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Is this the view from where I spoke to you from? It looks as busy and noisy. I don't know whether it's the heat or beer but your spelling seems to have slipped a little - draught (lager and wind) or drought (lack of rain)? And are you sure you ate some snakes from a bakery? Sounds quite dodgy... I'm possibly being pedantic but they may have terrible wind and you may well have eaten snakes, when in Rome and all that.
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Well spotted Tom - and did you notice the larger lion - do not know what he was doing to make him so refreshing?
ReplyDeleteAnyway I agree, you are doing well to keep this up and it is most entertaining......... packing my bag (complete with garden flowers) for art class. I shall miss you.
i think snake and cake sounds fine for dinner. but maybe that's little pea talking!
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