On 6th March 2014 it was time to go on our three-week holidays to Sri Lanka. The flight was from Edinburgh to Istanbul with the Turkish Airlines and it lasted four hours. The time difference between Edinburgh and Istanbul comes to two hours. When we arrived to Istanbul we were directed to the exit where we could catch another international connection. The Istanbul Ataturk Airport is quite huge with lots of passengers. You can pay with euros in many places. It took us ages to find bottled water as there are a lot of shops with perfume, alcohol and cigarettes, but no water. Finally after walking through almost the whole airport we found small bottled water. While standing in a queue a Turk jumped the queue in front of us. How nice! Welcome to Turkey:)
The flight from Istanbul to Colombo was at 1a.m. and the plane was almost full with lots of foreigners, the majority of whom was from Ukraine. During the flight we were trying to "catch" the time as the time zones were changing all the time. When finally we managed to fall asleep for two hours, the local time in Sri Lanka showed 7 or 8 a.m.
We had one stop at the Maldives whose airport was located close to the ocean and the views during landing and take-off were so picturesque that it's simply impossible to describe.
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| Flying to Sri Lanka |
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| The Maldives |
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| The Maldives |
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| The Maldives |
The flight from Male to Colombo lasted about one hour and we reached Sri Lanka about 2:30 p.m. The first meeting with the heatwave was hard. There was no wind and it was so humid that I was struggling to catch some "fresh" air.
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| Sri Lanka |
Then we went to reclaim our baggage and unfortunately my suitcase was damaged so we had to spend some more time at the airport. We were contacted with the Turkish Airlines worker and we made a claim. Then he took us to another building where the departures take place and we went to the Turkish Airlines office. They showed us a suitcase which they wanted to give us instead of mine. The suitcase wasn't so bad, but it wasn't as solid as mine and I don't think it would last long. So we decided to buy a new one here in Sri Lanka and try to get money back when we come back to Edinburgh. We will see how it will work.
After leaving the airport my parents-in-law were waiting for us and we took a van and went to their house which is located not far away from the airport. The first views of houses, shops and stray dogs were kind of shocking to me.
Then driving on those roads is crazy like as if there are no rules. They blow the horn constantly sometimes without any reason. At least for me it is much too much. Apart from that some people walk almost in the middle of the road, school children come back home on the same side of the road as the cars behind them. It is so dangerous and it looks like nobody cares about safety which I cannot understand.
My parents-in-law live in a residential complex close to Colombo and a town Ja-ela. There are about 1,400 houses which are really nice.
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