Nuwara Eliya here we come!

On the long weekend in April (11^th to the 14^th), Hyacinth invited me to join her family on a trip to Nuwara Eliya. Of course I was more than happy to!

So we set off happily on Friday morning looking forward to our long weekend trip to the hill country. Janani kept bouncing up and down excitedly in her seat thrilled to bits with everything she saw. We giggled and laughed all the way to Nuwara Eliya.

We stopped on the way to visit an old elephant with probably the longest tusks in Sri Lanka. I was rather sad because the poor elephant looked gaunt, underfed, ill and unhappy.

We had a picnic lunch on the roadside. Anton put a mat on the grass for the three ladies while he sat on the baby chair. When we got up I found that I had parked my cream clad butt on vegetable matter making a nice brown patch to match my cream trouser yuck!!!!

We were to stay at the beautiful bungalow ‘Highlands’ lent to us by Dinush. What a welcome sight it was after a long drive from Colombo to chilly Nuwara Eliya! The house was a lovely old fashioned one with beautiful antique furniture and, we discovered to our pleasure the next morning, with a well tended garden in full bloom!