Sunday 5th February 2023

You probably all know the feeling of how a brief, but rather intense, weekend can feel like it has lasted forever, and I felt rather sad to leave our beautiful veranda at Sunburst View this morning, with its amazing view looking up towards Little Adam's Peak that we had climbed only yesterday afternoon. We said goodbye to our lovely host, Premasiri, and headed off with Rathnayake to Ella Railway Station.

I must mention that for the many hours we spent in Rathnayake's tuk-tuk yesterday, we had this lovely view above us, where the tuk-tuk was decorated with this 'Nachural wallpaper', which greatly amused me. Someone with a bit of a grasp of phonics has obviously spelt this as it sounded and replaced the 't' with a 'ch'. I have to tell you that this English spelling is typical here in Sri Lanka (Tea Leaf students, of course, do substantially better!).

Ella Railway Station is rather lovely, and I took photos of us there, as well as of the train arriving at the platform. The journey back to Nanu Oya is a strikingly beautiful one, and was captured rather well by Daya, who was up and down out of his seat like a yo-yo, photographing anything and everything! We passed some breath-taking waterfalls on the way back, and although Daya got a photo of them, it barely does them justice.

I spent the afternoon back in Blackpool trying to sort out all my photographs, as there was an astonishing number that took me ages to download, sort out, and cull to a reasonable number. I am old enough to remember being restricted to a roll of film of on your camera (two rolls if you were lucky), so it is quite amazing in this digital age to be overwhelmed with a colossal number of photographs from one weekend away!

After yesterday's rather grand lot of 20 photographs, I have whittled today's down to just 10, and things will return to a much smaller number from tomorrow! Today's photographs show our goodbyes at Sunburst View and the lovely train journey back to Nanu Oya.














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  1. CharlesFebruary 6, 2023 at 12:07 AM

    Watch out Michael Portillo, you have some competition!

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  2. AdrianFebruary 6, 2023 at 4:40 AM

    Hi Keith, whilst you were enjoying your train ride and such, here back home the big event for us rugby fans is the start of the 6 Nations. On Saturday Ireland gave Wales a good drubbing and Scotland beat England at Twickenham. I was at that game and it was a fantastic atmosphere with some decent rugby at times. England's defence though was woeful and Scotland exploited that to score the winning try in the final minutes. We have Italy at home this coming Sunday and the perceived wisdom is that that game will be an easier one for England. Well, that was until yesterday when Italy ran France very close, so maybe England won't have it all their own way! Take care and hope to see you soon, Adrian

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