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Colombo
(Apr 03 '07)
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4.02.2007 En route to Colombo, Sri Lanka
Today is our 3rd day at sea since leaving Phuket. We have sailed in waters that were heavily affected by the earthquake and the resulting tsunami in ...
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Observations you won't find in the inflight magazine
(Mar 25 '07)
So back to the airport. As I was heading to my gate I found myself in a current of offloading passengers. I stopped in my tracks out of curiosity. Where were these people from? They seemed a few ...
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I arrive at Fort Station
at 4pm,. collected the bag I'd left
in storage there and made my way to the Galle Face Hotel,a great old (1864) hotel with excellent style. My Deluxe
Room ...
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Sri Lanka
(Jan 04 '08)
Just arrived in Singapore after spending 2 weeks in lovely Sri Lanka. Spent some time on the beach, went to Unawatuna and then on to Mirissa beach which was really beautiful - palm fringed and empty. ...
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Just one night in Colombo
(Jan 02 '08)
We arrived at Colombo airport bright and early after our very early flight from India. Having been warned of the driving in Colombo by a number of friends we steeled ourselves for the worst but were ...
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Sri Lanka
(Mar 25 '07)
As many of you know, a change in job has allowed me 4 weeks to wander off somewhere warm. So, I flew off to Sri Lanka for 2+weeks to be followed by 2 weeks in Southern India.
During my recent ...
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The word Security takes on new meaning in central Colombo
; lots of streets totally closed off, frequent police and army check points.
Grand Oriental is OK .. ...
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Revisit Colombo before take off
(Sep 27 '07)
We came back to Colombo for the last 2 nights. We had some serious crafts shopping to do and hoped also to get a peek in at my old house. The visit to the house was not so successful though. I had ...
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Back in Colombo 21 years later
(Sep 13 '07)
We arrived to Colombo a few hours after 3 large earthquakes struck in the same region as the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. There were no major waves that day, but based on the previous loss of 40,000 ...
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Eye of the Tigers
(Jan 22 '08)
Jan. 22
By Dan
I thought of our time in the Maldives as a sort of vacation from our vacation. Like all vacations, it had to end, so we prepared ourselves to move on. Back onto a seaplane we ...
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Recent Blogs for Colombo
Entry Five
(Feb '05)
"The Tsunami makes news, and we pay attention. Yet when it is over, we return to life as we’d known it."
JOURNAL ENTRY #5
My last day in Sri Lanka. The time seems too
short. It has flown too ...
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