I go to the gardens – SL#45.

Hello once again and thank you for your continuing interest in this series of posts which deal with my first trip to Sri Lanka in 2014. I say continuing interest although I know there may be some of you who have landed upon this page by way of some sort of internet search on a particular term and so I shall offer my usual advice that if you want to read the entire piece from the beginning then you should begin here. It is a long read but I hope it is an interesting one for you.

If you have been following or have just read through then you will know that I was in Kandy and enjoying it hugely. It is at this point that matters become somewhat synchronous as they so often seem to do with my travels.

In writing terms, I have now entered March 2021 which marks one year exactly of pandemic house arrest, be it self-imposed, medically required or more usually Governmentally dictated. Sadly, I now live in a police state where ill-debated measures have given the constabulary virtually unlimited powers that Stalin, Pol Pot or Hitler would have admired. If you want to see what happens on my trip in much happier times then please read on.

Continue reading “I go to the gardens – SL#45.”
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