Jacqui and Richard Abroad: Monday, February 24th

We flew out of Kuwait shortly after 10 pm on Thursday night. A 5½ hour flight plus 2½ hour time difference got us to Colombo by 6h30 am. From there, we had a 3 hour drive to get to our resort. It's not that far distance wise, but you can't travel very fast. There are no highways like the 401; it's all oncoming traffic, and lots of it. You seem to always be in town, therefore you can't drive very fast. We thought that driving in Kuwait was a challenge; it's a lot worse here. First off, they drive on the other side of the road, like in England. Unlike Kuwait, nobody drives fast - if they did, they would kill someone every two minutes. We were on a four lane road (two lanes going each way) but the oncoming motorcycles and tuk tuks would drive on our side of the road all the time. Intersections were also interesting as it seemed that whoever felt like turning was doing so, hoping that everybody else would let them.

Friday was pretty much a wasted day, as we slept on and off. Saturday and Sunday were fine. We were rested and ready to do nothing at all - and we do it well! We took a tuk tuk to Beruwala on Sunday. The place is pretty poor and there isn't much there. Other than that, we have been at the resort all the time. Cinnamon Bey resort is very nice and pretty quiet. There were more people on the weekend but Monday wasn't very busy. People are very friendly. We sit in the shade, watching and listening to the ocean; it's pretty relaxing. Speaking of relaxing, we went for a 2 hour Spa treatment on Saturday; it was amazing. The body rub was cool and the massage was by far the best we've ever had.
We did manage to watch the gold medal game from a bar in the hotel. Jacqui and I were the only ones watching; we even had possession of the remote control! It was great!