An early start with the van arriving to take us to Colombo at 8am. The family, the paid help (and her family), plus the neighbours were all round in force to say their goodbyes too us. Group photos all round, we even roped the van driver in to take the pics. The van proved a […]

Our final day in Ahangama. We first got the bus into Weligama to visit Janani and her family. She hosted us with tea and biscuits (as usual), showing us photos of the visit Rachel and I made to her sister’s home in Colombo and her own recent trip to Kandy. We all then went into […]

Today we hired a van and went on a bus trip with our family and a variety of other local friends that we have made here There were 15 of us in total so we made quite a rowdy bunch. We left Ahangama at 04.30 AM (!) and visited numerous temples on the way to […]

Today was a day of illness. Half of our group suffered some digestive problems while the other half ran errands in Ahangama. The family looked after us extremely well by bringing us local remedies and lots of drinks. Kathryn and I basically just sat around looking pathetic all day while everyone else ran around after […]