We spent a very lazy morning by the pool today, our final day at the Amarantha Classic Resort. It isn’t very classic at all. The walls are like paper and I was woken this morning at 6.30 by the guy next door clearing his throat, lovely! So I read my current novel on the Kindle app on my phone. I’m reading The Long Cosmos by the late Terry Pritchett and Stephen Baxter. It’s the fifth book in the Long Earth series, a very entertaining science fiction novel. Having a phone is really handy, even if I don’t use it as a phone. I also listen to podcasts when I’m travelling. Lee Mack was being interviewed by Steve Wright (on th afternoon) and was very funny.
At about midday we packed up and got a tuk tuk to Dambulla town centre and jumped on the Kandy bus. That sounds like it ought to be pink and covered in licorice allsorts and wine gums, but it was just a regular Leyland Ashok Lanka bus. They bomb around everywhere at great speed and are very cheap, the bus journey to Kandy cost less than the tuk tuk ride into town! English bums are bigger than Sri Lankan bums, so the seats are a bit small.
Back in Kandy we went up to the Sunny Hills Residence, which is at the top of a big hill with wonderful views of the city. After unpacking we walked into town and ate in the food court of Kandy City Centre, which is a proper Western style shopping centre.
We walked around a bit and found an actual pub, selling beer and cocktails, bloody marvellous. It was full of tourists, the only locals were serving. Pub culture doesn’t exist at all here, and they are probably a lot healthier for it. Also no signs of rowing, skulling or skiffing. I suppose the crocodiles put people off.
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