The alarm rudely awakened us at 6.15 am… the last bits and pieces squeezed into the cases. We had a packed lunch to eat in the car… At 7.00 Suminda arrived and away we sped to the Airport along the expressway which had a toll of LKR 550 about £1.50 local LKR cash only.

9.00am saw us at the airport loading our bags on to a trolly and bidding a very sad farewell to Suminda. He really had been a gem.
We soon booked our bags in and very quickly passed through emigration. The departure lounge has some nice duty free shops and a few food outlets. We wandered down to gate 9 with plenty of time to find lots of people already going through. At this point our hand baggage and ourselves were scanned again for the 3rd time and you’re only allowed 100m of liquid. We only had to wait at the gate a short while before our seat numbers were called. Sri Lankan Airlines very sensibly fill from the back. The flight was a few minutes late taking off. Once again the meals and entertainment were good. 11 hours 45 minutes later we landed at Heathrow. We were quite quickly through the immigration e-gates and our baggage soon arrived. We gave Stuart, our driver, a call and 10 minutes later he picked us up…. Even with the road works we were home by 10.00pm……. What a great adventure we had had…. Thank you Sri Lanka you are a beautiful country… Thanks to Rosie Price at Dialaflight. – UK tel no. 0161-841-8179 or rosie.price@dialaflight.co.uk – and to Jetwing Travel for sorting out all the on the ground details of our trip and most of all thank you to Suminda who made our trip exciting and was a good fun travelling companion. His details are Suminda Dissanayake he can be contacted at Suminda711@gmail.com. or what’s app/ phone number is + 94772279050
When we finish the unpacking etc we will post a final blog on Sri Lanka with a few tips to help enhance your holiday. In the meantime thank you to those of you who have followed us.