Month Three

December was our third month of travelling. It marks the half way point of our 6 month tour and has brought us half way around the world! We started the month continuing our Sri Lankan chapter from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya to Ela exploring tea plantations, hiking to waterfalls and catching trains. Craig nearly lost his […]

Rekawa and Hikkaduwa Beach, Sri Lanka

From Ella we headed south to the beaches. Now I love a beach, as does Sophie but the other half of our family are not keen. Rekawa miraculously pleased us all! There were hardly any tourists around and we spent our time exploring the beaches and wildlife, walking along the sand and over rocks. It […]

Kandy, Nuwara Eliya and Ella, Sri Lanka

From Sigirya we travelled to Kandy and were delighted to arrive at our homestay Jungle Tide which was exactly as described – ‘a tranquil tea estate bungalow off the beaten track with mountain views, swimming pool, gardens and top quality home cooking.’ In fact it was so wonderful we only left to explore the local area […]

A Day in Our Travel Life – 3rd December

This is a blog post featuring a day in our life! I have included prices, information and photos. We started the morning by packing up all of our bags and then headed into a tuk-tuk, because we had loads stuff with us there was not much space left for any of us. When we arrived […]

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka

From the Colombo train we arrived in Dambulla and tuktuked it to Sigirya – a town built around a rock and geared towards backpackers. We stayed in an amazing home stay with the most wonderful host Sithi who drove us around in his many vehicles, his wife cooked the best breakfasts and his son was Sophie’s […]

Colombo, Sri Lanka

From our last stop in India, Chennai, we flew to our 5th country – Sri Lanka! We started with a few days in the capital Colombo. We came to Sri Lanka in 2013 for our wedding in Unawatuna, near Galle and missed out seeing much of the country so we were looking forward to exploring […]