Ella Stories


Another adventure

To see my stories click on the pull-down menu Journals, then click Intrepid Sri Lanka. To enlarge a picture, click on it. Click Next for the next story. We got to the man who told us yesterday that he would take us on a walk at 9.15 and he was deep in conversation about a land transaction and seemed surprised and pleased that we wanted to take him up...


Adams peak (well not quite)

To see my stories click on the pull-down menu Journals, then click Intrepid Sri Lanka. To enlarge a picture, click on it. Click Next for the next story. There is something called Adams peak in Sri Lanka that you climb in the night and which takes 4 hours to ascend. The one we climbed this morning is called little Adams peak. Some very nice views. On ...


Train to Ella

To see my stories click on the pull-down menu Journals, then click Intrepid Sri Lanka. To enlarge a picture, click on it. Click Next for the next story. We got up at 6am and went to a station outside Kandy to get the 8.45 am train to Ella. One of the best train journeys in the world and probably the slowest! We did not arrive in Ella till 4pm! We had...


Just a quick wee mail from Ella

Hi there, Well now we are in Ella! I can’t remember where we were the last time I wrote but we have been in Newara Eliya for two nights before we came here. The name of the town means little England because an English person came here and decided to make a little town out of it because the area was so beautiful. In our guide book the place sounds ...