Good evening from kandy Sri Lanka

Well it's a warm welcome to all our readers worldwide and particularly in Asia as we blog on the road from sto Lanka . We had an awful hotel last night the food was terrible and in the morning they tried to charge is for the rooms which were already paid for , we were the only European guests the others were locals working around batticolea . We ended up skipping breakfast as well as the dinner , lion beer was the only positive thing. We left there promptly at 7.30am this morning and were glad to find that much of the highway from batti to kandy had been renewed and we had a couple of stop offs to record the busy bus scenes inbthecdnslker towns whose bus services were more extensive than most British cities. We had some terrible heavy rain early in and as we travelled we saw many troops of monkeys waiting to set upon silly travellers who may stop and offer them food, several species noted as we rolled along reaching the city around lunch time. By early afternoon the schools are finished for the day and all hell breaks loose at the bus stations possibly the most hectic scenes we have ever recorded worldwide. The weather picked up in the afternoon and by tea time we had enough film and were ready to meet up with our driver and check in to the really excellent clove villa a four bedroom mini hotel. This was the best place we have ever encountered in sto Lanka with lovely staff who are do sincere and helpful and the food we spot on. I'm up early tomorrow hoping for a catch up with soaps tonight catching he 06.30 train to Colombo in the morning and intending to get yet more coverage of the lorries on the last of our working days as we have seen precious little in he north and east where even private cars are very rare.