8 Mar Nooit Gedacht Dutch Heritage Hotel Yeah ha we book into the hotel across from where we stayed last time we were here. It’s the luxury version. Its so nice. There are a troup of monkeys playing by the pool. We decided to come back to Unawatuna even with […]

5  – 7 Mar Turtle Point We liked it so much here  we wanted to come so Pete could swim with turtles. We are staying in the White Lion Paradise (£28 inc breakie). Its nice. There is a bit of a bad smell outside sometimes. The river flows into the […]

1 Mar Back to Tangalle We spend the morning on Bathigama Beach. We debated where to stay due to the Middle East war. We see queues for the petrol station on the way to Tangalle. Worried we should have gone up towards Colombo and our flight home instead of even […]

27 Feb No Turtles After a massive breakfast again we get a taxi back to the coast. Another homestay. It’s clean but very small. We’ve come here to go to Turtle Point. We wander left at the beach. The first patch of beach is manky and there is not much […]

24 Feb Up to Ella So just finsihed writing this and it didnt save!! So here’s the short version. More Juicy Reads..Unawatuna Luxury Stay – 8 MarBathigama Turtle Beach – 5 MarKoh Lanta Nin 30th – 1st Feb 25Hikkaduwa – 5 Feb 26

20 Feb 26 Tangalle We spend the morning on the beach and then get an Uber the 1.5hrs south. This is as far south as we will go. We check into Leen Tangalle (£32 with breakie) Right near the beach. Spotless. Larger room. Phew. The first beach at the end […]

18 Feb Back to Colombo   So here we are on the platform back to Colombo for a 9 hour round trip to get our visas out of the system. The system is broken. More Juicy Reads..Tangalle – 1 Mar 26Kandy T20s – 29 Jan 26Unawatuna – 13 Feb 26Colombo […]

13 Feb Daffodil Hotel We’d heard that Unawatuna was busy and filled with Russians..but we can’t go much further down south until we sort out the visas. So we book 1 night in the middle of the mayhem to get our bearings. More Juicy Reads..Unawatuna Luxury Stay – 8 MarTangalle […]

10 Feb A Boho Retreat We check out of Hikkaduwa today and get a car to Galle. But only once we’ve had breakfast and I have my first cinnamon tea. It’s so nice and a new fav. And good for a dodgy belly apparently. More Juicy Reads..Colombo ODI Cricket – […]