Blog 93 Two Birthday Skype sessions in consecutive days. This time Mums 65th! Sometimes the hunt for accommodation is tiring and still doesn't produce what's needed... This wasn't the case in Galle and 10 minutes after starting the search, we dropped our bags and settled into our beautiful 'apartment' for 2500 rupees £12.50 per night. Big spenders today but totally worth it for a couple of days. Galle was a nice change in architecture with a Portuguese, Dutc...

Blog 92 Arriving in Tangalla, we met a Sri Lankan 3 wheel driver who was more reggae than Buddhist. His dreadlocks whistled in the wind as he whipped us to the beach for a room with a sea view. With it being the monsoon season in SW Sri Lanka, there's only one reason to be in Tangalla at this time of year and that's to visit the turtles in nesting season. With an afternoon to kill we drank beers by the beach and skyped Rach on her birthday. As dusk began to...

Blog 91 Falsely told that this gorgeous national park is in the wet season and we should go and stay with a friend who had a guest house down there we headed off hopeful of seeing all things wild and huge flocks of birds! Well, slight miscommunication (scam). But actually possibly a highlight of the entire trip so far!!! Happy scam! Actually very dry season but wildlife was every bit as amazing as we could have imagined. Binoculars in hand, guide and driver...

Blog 90 Oh my gosh that next morning our legs paid for that walk up and down Adam's Peak! Down slopes and stairs are definitely the worst! Ouch! Ella was just as we hoped, a lovely small village with beautiful views and mountains around. Our room had a great view apparently you could see 100 miles. We're more inclined to think it could have been 50 though. Ella was spent catching up on blogs, reading, doing our cook books, writing postcards and resting our...

Blog 89 A day of doing what we now do best...Travelling! Lots of cramped local buses later we arrived in cool drizzly Dalhousie. Bliss after the hot sticky plastic covered seats of the buses. A nice restful evening including an absolute feast of a buffet prepared by the 75 year old guest house owner and her two 14 year old helpers from the town, who undoubtedly devoured our leftovers. Slightly less black baggy eyed after 3 hours sleep we donned the walking b...