I’ve had trouble with this entry! I always have trouble with one and, apparently, this is it. I have now written and saved this blog three times - and lost it three times - so unless I get bored you’re going to have to do without it! Over and out!

So. Anuradhapura (ignore previous spellings!) The home of the king around BC/AD (so I guess that means 0). And lo it came to pass that the king decided to build a giant mushroom shaped building (as you do) and said to his builder (Adrian) “Get it dome”. So Adrian designed and built a huge circular building out of brick - it was also solid and filled with bricks apart from a temple. It was called a Stupa. The first one we saw was the earliest and had since...

Had a great meal last night. Red chicken curry with 8 (eight) side dishes for ADO! LMA started gently with local fish and chips. Sitting in an open, but roofed, restaurant looking across the lawn with lights on and torches burning was beautiful. As was the curry! Following virtually no sleep on the flight, and having lost 5+ hours on the time difference we went to bed at 8,30pm! Slept like a log - which we needed to do because the alarm went off at 05.45!...