Month: January 2015
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Sri Lanka – Mannar to Jaffna, the top of Sri Lanka
Cycling over 100km any day is a big ask. We knew we had to do 118km today, there’s absolutely nowhere to stay or even wild camp between Mannar and Jaffna and so we would just have to push on. It’s a flat road, but things never go exactly as you want them to and our…
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Sri Lanka -Backtracking in the rain again..
When we woke this morning we knew we had to change accommodation, we were told when we checked in that a large group of 60 had booked all the rooms where we were staying. Our loose plan was to move to one of the many other places in close proximity then hire a motorbike to…
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Sri Lanka – Mannar (26/11)
Despite our great plans to get out for a cycle around to see the Mannar peninsula today, when we got up, the rain was coming down in buckets. It was much later than we had anticipated when we finally got to leave the guest house and go for breakfast. We headed to the hotel, that…
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Boring Mannar
Without mosquito nets in our room we had yet another sleepless night. The loud spinning fan above our beds meant we didn’t hear them, but they were there biting us constantly resulting in another restless itchy night. The old wooden walls of the colonial era government rest house was no barrier for these guys who…
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Sri Lanka – Making our way north.
Anuradnapura is an ancient town with lots of old Buddhist temples, unfortunately because of the high entry cost we didn’t visit the main area of ruins. There were some you didn’t have to pay to see, and luckily on the day we visited some kind of large festival was taking place so it was very…
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Sri Lanka – Puttalam to Wilpattu and Back Again!
Sri Lanka can be a strange auld place. We stayed in a “holiday resort” last night and paid 1700 rupees for our room. We were told it was far superior to the rooms for 700. On dumping our bags and getting a chance to look around, we discovered here wasn’t much difference in it. The…
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Chillaw to Puttalam
Last nights sleep was restless, the air in the old musty room was heavy with moisture and hot making it uncomfortable. The rotating fan above our head looked like it was likely to detach from the ceiling imminently and seemed to do little to stir the humid air. Yet somehow we did manage some sleep,…
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We can’t be expected to like every place we go….
Hi, we are just about to unleash all our musings from our Cycle around Sri Lanka.. we have decided just to dump it all in two days as we don’t feel it is particularly interesting and we were not especially enthusiastic about this part of our journey. It wasn’t Sri Lanka per se, but a…
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Sri Lanka- the first day – Negombo to Chilaw (19/11)
We had great plans for our first day of cycling in Sri Lanka. We were going to get everything ready the evening before, set our alarm for the wee hours of the morning and hit the road before the traffic got heavy. But it wasn’t to be. After arriving back at our accommodation after a…
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The Mad Dash – From Ohrid, Macedonia to Belgrade Serbia in 8 days
Leaving Ohrid, we knew we had quite a task ahead of us. We intended to reach Belgrade by the 9th of November so that we would have time to pack up all of our belongings and find boxes to transport our bikes as far as Sri Lanka. We’re not thrilled that we will be skipping…
Sam and Sheena Cycle 