The end of the tour and we're stii all friendly!

On our last day, we drove to Colombo, did a city tour and had a couple of hours downtime before a walking tour which went on so long that we went straight on  to dinner. 

After almost 2 weeks together, we have managed to stay on good terms.

Our guide - George - has worked hard - not always successfully - to deliver all the elements of the programme despite some floooding and closed roads. However, he also managed to misread the group on a couple of occasions e. g. taking us to a rooftop bar on our last evening for a sundowner looking out over Colombo port when he knew they didnt have a licence - and could only serve soft drink - obviously we didn't stay long!! 

Some of you know our friend Debs in Singapore - being from Lancashire she can be direct and sometimes loud in her conversation. However, our Met Police Detective Inspector - who is originally from Yorkshire but studied in Lancashire - is at a much louder level with an annoying nervous laugh. Every conversation is peppered with 'literally', 'basically' and 'actually' and she seemed to switch off when anyone else was talking - I was quite glad when she disappeared yesterday evening to catch a train for the next stage of her journey

I think I'm done with this sort of tour now. It was a good intro to Sri Lanka and we will definitely plan another visit but think we'll organise it ourselves.

We have an overnight flight to Doha with a connection to Cape Town - arriving just in time for a Burns Supper. That may provide material for mote blog - who knows 🤔🤔