What a City! We stayed in a hotel in the French quarter which is difficult to describe! It is full of bars and reaturants and music and seems to go on for 24 hours a day. Anyway, we decided to take a bus tour of the City and also went on the Steam Boat Natchez for an evening cruise down the Mississippi. Although it rained it didn’t spoil our enjoyment of the evening. I am keeping this blog short because I am having problems with the whole thing which you m...

We slept in until 11 am! Unfortunately that was UK time and we were awake at 06.00, had breakfast at 7am and were on the road by 8.15. Already well into the 20s with a clear blue sky it was going to get quite warm. We headed south west on the freeway which helped us cover the 300+ miles needed today but was fairly straight and bordered by high trees on both sides which made the drive uninteresting. We stopped for a leg stretch at a rest area and, unlike Europ...

Well here we are. We finally made it to the US of A. And moreover we’re in Trump country. So that’ll be interesting. We had a good flight over (albeit 10 hours) and landed at 8pm local. And then to immigration! We joined the Disneyesque queue and after about 20 minutes a quick calculation suggested a 2 hour wait

Home. To complete the flight line

Observations on our trip to Sri Lanka in no particular order: For some reason cyclists use their heels to pedal! This means that their knees stick out putting them in peril from overtaking vehicles! Tuk tuks - you’ve got to love ‘em, unless they are holding up traffic which makes them almost the lowest of the low road users (cyclists being the lowest). I’m not sure about the driving!!! It seems there is a thin line between courtesy and the acceptance of...