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| Here is Victoria outside her Simla
Inn guest house. A Methodist, she is lauded in the guidebooks for
keeping her guest house open during the various phases of the wars.
She recollected hiding behind a pillar as bullets passed both sides.
This particular guest house is the third on she built. The first two
were built with her husband were destroyed by a cyclone and then by
the tsunami which also claimed her husband. This one is further from
the beach. Friday May 21st 2010 |
Here James is driving the ever ready Nissan Serena off the small ferry to Mahiladitivu
near Batticoloa to see former student Sasikumar. Friday evening May 21st
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We stopped in Arugam Bay for a couple of nights.
Surfers from around the world congregate just outside the bay to catch the
big rollers. Inside the bay, the beach is so steep that waves actually
bounce back and even break in the opposite direction. If you swim
parallel to the beach the waves come from two opposite directions. |
Here is one local surfer, every bit as good as the much bigger foreigners. |
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On the way home to Kandy we passed a stretch of the
massive Mahaweli irrigation scheme that takes hill country water into
arid areas on the way to the north east. Tuesday May 25th 2010 |
Further up the river is the Katupathwela dam. |
