After Buddha enlightened me yesterday, today was the turn for Sri Lankan railways to enlighten me further. Fortunately the train was scheduled to leave Kandy at a decent time of 8:47am and actually left closer to 9am. It had departed Colombo…
Buddha and I
I arrived in Kandy before lunchtime. I’ve learnt that despite my guesthouse looking nice and close to the lake in Kandy (and it is), that the hills around Kandy are steep. I settled into my room, which is the smallest…
Sick for Sigiriya
I awoke in Polonnaruwa, with a migraine and sore sinuses. I had an awful night sleep on a bed that could at best be as comfortable as a Chinese bed. The mattress was thin and the base as hard as…
Ceylon train adventure
An early start which wasn’t really an issue given the jet lag is pretty bad. Must be the 5 or 6 hr time change. Normally I adjust pretty quickly, but find myself dozing off at weird times. I went to…
The bad Colombo plan
I thought the flights into Colombo would not be too tiring, but the last leg from Singapore to Colombo was a bit draining. The plane was full and my back, neck, shoulders and butt all decided they wanted to ache…
Satay by the bay
So my final post for this trip basically because the last one was so negative. So after I wrote it, I went to gardens by the bay, which is a botanical garden with giant sculptured trees that act as vertical…
Sentosa = Hell
So last night i went for a wander around Clarke Quay, basically cause I got lost and headed in the wrong direction. A few streets later i realised i didn’t recognise where i was so went the opposite way and…
Musings of mine
Today was a travel day to Singapore. Originally I was going to spend a week in Thailand but decided I could not do justice to Thailand in a week and had no inkling of spending some quality alone time in…
Khlongs
I thought I should checkout the khlongs or canals of Bangkok. You only live once and I saw the long boats wizz past Jim Thompson’s house yesterday. Basically once you find the wharf you wait for the long boat to…
Where is Jim?
So today has been declared a temple and buddhist free day to relax a little and do something different. I read something about Jim Thompson’s house. I have never heard of him so thought I’d go see what its all…