Friday drove to Kandy, really not sure why, second largest town in Sri Lanka is all its got going for it. Roads and streets really busy,hot and dirty! Hassle from guys trying to sell you stuff etc etc. The drive was good we stopped of at a tea plantation, sampled the tea and have become a convert to black tea!! Saw all the ladies in the fields again, plucking away, took some awesome photos, but you will have to go to face book to seem them. Not sure how/if you can put photos on a blog!! We poped into a spice garden, some chap explained all the different spices and what they are used for, had a massage and the the guy proceeded to try to sell us pads of their products, would have I suppose if we were coming straight home, but $80 is a lot to spend on ageing cream when it already too late. mind you they Did have something that would make you loose weight, I was tempted but don't want to spend the next 6 months running to the loo!! We then washed the elephants in the river, awesome is all I can say. Wanted to bring the big boy home. Booked into a posh hotel for the night, on the beach in Negombo. Expensive for here nearly 8000 rp which is about £40. However to pool was not in use and the room not very posh! This morning we wandered along the road and found a nice hotel, clean, with a little kitchen area, toilet clean but not posh and a fabulouse pool in full working order. We checked out of the posh place and moved in here for just 4000 a night, about £20.00 a night!! Think we will stay here about four nights to relax and get the washing done. Then the plan is to head up north again (without Cedric!). Will do a bit of cultural sight seeing. Ps if the spellings are bad in this blog, the reason is that I can't spell ant the iPod changes the spelling to suit it!!!!