Well Sri Lanka has been amazing, colourful, creepy and dull all mixed in together!

On arrival we were collected by taxi to take us to our hotel after our late night flight from Bangkok. All good so far, but once in the hotel (we had to wake up the night security to get in) we were taken into a dark and quite spooky old colonial style hotel. More worrying seeing as though this would be our home for 8 nights during the cricket.

Not helped by the cockroach that met us at reception, and the corridor that that smelt of stale smoke and resembled a back up set for 'The Shining'. We got in our room which was much cleaner, and went to sleep.

In the morning everything seemed much better. The bar was still full of creepy men, but everything seems better in the morning. It was here we made a pact to try and avoid arriving at any lodging after sundown. However Claire was feeling I'll, so I ventured our on search of food.

Now Colombo as a city is rather dull, in the sense that it is business based with little for the tourist to see or do, however it did the best street snacks in the world, including my new love, the triangle chick pea curry rotti (it needs to be tasted to be believed!).

With Claire still feeling poorly, I headed to the bar to find fellow England fans, where I came across a brilliant couple from Bolton so I pulled up a seat, joined them for several bottles of Lion before heading to bed.

The next days mission was to collect our tickets for the test (we had reserved days 1 to 3, and had found out that tickets were going to be £25 a day, compared to £1 a day for the Aussies months earlier. Despite this destroying our budget, and joining a long list of taxes on cricket fans we sucked it up and paid for the tickets before being treated to a free game of T20, followed by a Tuk Tuk to the Cricket Club Cafe.

The Tuk Tuks are metered which after the rest of Asia seemed quite bargainous. Sadly the Cricket Club was not so cheap, but had been taken over by England fans as a base do the atmosphere was amazing. Now it was just a matter for the cricket to start

! But before that we went on a trip to Candy to see Buddhas Tooth (you can't even see it!) and rode and bathed an elephant, and pissed off the Mahout by not giving him a tip (we had already paid a fortune to ride the elephant, at special cricket fan prices).

The cricket was amazing, and too difficult to choose a single highlight, but watching KP score his century was up there, being on Sky back home, and the people we met were all things that we will never forget (a special thanks to Clive who treated us to tea after our series levelling victory!).

So after a week of Lion beers, rottis, cricket, Tuk Tuks, and new cricket friends it was time to go back to Thailand, already thinking about the India series in December!