Monthly Archives: June 2016

Sri Lanka 2016 – part two

When the train to Jaffna pulled up at the Colombo Fort station I was initially taken aback at the Spartan nature of my second class compartment. But moments later, after I had found my seat, stored my larger bag on the overhead rack, found a place for my water bottle and settled into a good […]

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Sri Lanka 2016

Impressions of a recent trip to Sri Lanka the land of my birth, all my growing up and the first few years of adulthood.  I felt alone. The feeling was not starkly apparent at first, probably because of some mounting excitement about going there. But, I recall a nagging suspicion in the days leading to […]

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