During the night it had rain heavily and lots if roads in colombo had flooded, so our journey to Kandy on train could be a problem. On the train towards the main station we met a local man who had family in Brighton, he was chatting to is about lots of stuff and warned us of the hot curries which we have yet to experience! He took us to the ticket booth when we got to the main station and helped us buy our ticket. With all the rain the train journey inland to Kan...

Colombo is Sri Lanka's city centre and we have been advised not to hang around too long so we didn't have high hopes. After getting off the plane we were both shattered and completely oblivious to the culture shock outside of the air conditioned building. We walk out onto the taxi rank and were immediately hassled to get into the cars. We couldn't find the train station anywhere and decided to get the bus. After asking lots of people eventually one very kind ma...