As usual, a quick post to see if this blog design works. We're off on the afternoon of Tuesday 16th January, arriving in Colombo, Sri Lanka, around about 10 in the morning on Wednesday 17th. A couple of nights in Colombo to get over the jet lag, then it's a long train ride down the west coast of Sri Lanka to a small hippy beach we quite fancy followed by a three week tour all the way back up the coast: sunsets and seafood all the way.
It has been traditional for me, on this first page, to have a giant, relentless whine about the inhumane evils of English airports and the horrors of cattle class flights. This time, in the spirit of ensuring we have zero money on the x-axis of the graph at the same time we reach zero life on the y-axis, we're travelling . . . wait for it . . . Business Class! Yes, we're blowing our imaginary children's inheritance, not to mention post-death donations to the taxman, on a deluxe first class flight from Heathrow to Colombo with Qatar Airlines. The internet forums and blogs suggest that it is going to be something to write home about. It bloody well should be considering what they charged me, but let's not go there.
Onward!
