Sunday 9th March - Day 35

It's my last day in Sri Lanka and I go for a walk in Colombo. It rains a little. I make a visit to KFC - for research purposes. I wonder what it tastes like compared to back home. Well, the answer is, it's subtly different but just as unhealthy and the chips aren't up to much.

There are a lot of checkpoints around Colombo and soldiers standing on street corners. And I see loads of vehicles being randomly stopped, the drivers asked for their i.d.

Everywhere you go tuk-tuk drivers try and get your attention and want your fare. They don't like to see foreigners walking it seems. I persuade one of them to pick me up form the hotel at about 6pm, when I have to book out, and take me to the airport. It's almost half the cost of a taxi and will take about forty minutes. I don't have to be at the airport until about 10:30pm, so there will be a lot of hanging around.

At 5:50pm the tuk-tuk driver comes to pick me up. I'm glad he came early because after a few minutes of setting off on our journey at 6:15pm we are under the most heavy thunder, lightening and rainstorm I've ever seen. I'm sure he wouldn't have bothered coming out to me if this had started earlier. I was mightily relieved to get to the airport.