Hello everyone I've made it to the south-to the city of Galle where Chamika was brought up and where her parents currently work and live. I spent a couple of lovely relaxing days in Kandy (where the temperature was more bearable for me!) before taking an early morning train to Colombo yesterday. I met Chamika at the railway station and we took a bus to Galle. Her father met us and took us to their home where I met Chamika's mother and had lunch (which...

Greetings from Kandy, in the hill country of Sri Lanka! This is apparently the coolest area in the country although you wouldn't know it! I would say the temperature is still in the mid twenties and reasonably high humidity but it is more pleasant than the coast (heat wise)! I'm having a wonderful time here. Chamika and Tharaka (her boyfriend) and their family and friends have been wonderful hosts. On Sunday we went to a Buddhist temple just out of Colo...

Greetings from tropical Sri Lanka! You know its hot (well for a person like me used to temperate climates!) when you start sweating at 1am in the morning as I did as soon as I stepped off the plane earlier this morning! My hotel is right beside the beach in Negombo (about 40km north of Colombo) and I had a lazy day today relaxing in the shade reading books-very blissful! I get to meet up with my penfriend, Chamika, tomorrow which I'm very excited about ...

Well my time in Thailand is almost up-I fly back to Bangkok this afternoon and then out to Colombo, Sri Lanka tonight. The past week has flown by . I took the train up to Chiang Mai from Bangkok on Sunday. To be honest I was pleased to leave Bangkok. I found the city too big with the worst traffic problems I have ever seen!! It took me over an hour on Saturday to get to my hotel from one of the shopping malls-a distance of only a couple of kilometres! I would hav...

well I've made it Bangkok-not my first time in Asia but it is my first time in Thailand. There are similarities with other cities I've visited in Asia-lots of noise, traffic and pollution. But there are good things too-friendly people, warm weather and colourful street stalls. I got to Bangkok early yesterday morning and spent most of my day in my hotel room as I was feeling a bit jet-lagged coming from Germany and not getting much sleep on the plane. ...