Category: Sri Lanka
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Jaffna Temples Tour
This was one of the most beautiful few hours of sightseeing I have enjoyed – I went on a temples tour which meanders through the countryside around Jaffna, includes a stop off at Keerimalai spring and loops back round via the islands connected to the city by a causeway. This was organized by D’Villa Guest…
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Visiting Jaffna as a solo traveller
I had wanted to visit Jaffna for several years and researched it a fair bit for previous visits to Sri Lanka. However, fitting a visit into a 2 weeks holiday when you really want to be at the other end of the island surfing, defeated all my best planning endeavours. Now, armed with 2 months…
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Thoughts on being over half way to home from Sri Lanka, and the start of a year of travelling
Oddly, my brain is strangely thought free. After years of obsessively thinking about leaving London and how that would feel, now that part of my brain feels strangely fudgey. It would have been normal for me to instead have focussed that anxious energy into something else, say planning that next year of travel, but I…
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Thoughts on 2 weeks in Sri Lanka (with 6 more to go)
After quite literally, years, of dreaming of returning to Sri Lanka and somehow working from here, I have to my great surprise managed to make it happen. Slightly odd then, that instead of ecstatic emotional platitudes coming to mind as I sit down to write, my first thought is, why is my shoulder hurting so…
a drifting thought 