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Bettysue's last post because I found, after an hour of typing that I had repeated everything that she had already mentioned. I ate my hat and it wasn't tasty. Anyway, we left Kandy by train on a 7 hour trip to Ella. It was very crowded but we had decided to spring the extra $2 each for a seat in the observation car which travels in the back. Much to my chagrin, I found that it was full of old European couples - Dutch, German, French. Oh well - I reasoned - old people need to travel as well. It was only at the end of the trip I caught my reflection , and, shit, goddamn, I looked just like them. It was a shock to the 
system. It took me several gin and tonics to calm down. Anyway, back to the train,! This was a beautiful train ride through the hill country, up through pine forests, through many tea plantations and picturesque towns and villages. Children would always return waves with huge smiles on their faces and some adults got in on the act as well. The train goes through land that isn't accessible by road so there was some very unspoilt scenery - rivers, waterfalls, jungle and forest. This observation car was a funny thing - like I said, it was at the back of the train and so the train's reaction to the irregularity of the track 
was like when you snap a rope. The last car - us - seemed to be bouncing up and leaving the track at times. I was very thankful that I had no 'tummy troubles' because this motion would have proved disastrous. We travelled from the early morning, ate a packed lunch on the train, and arrived at our destination at around 4:30 in the afternoon time - funnily enough - also G & T time. Our hotel was a fairly small place that overlooked the valley route that we would be taking the following morning. It was also just down the road from a Buddhist temple so we were serenaded by prayer chants that wafted through the trees to us.
Bettysue's last post because I found, after an hour of typing that I had repeated everything that she had already mentioned. I ate my hat and it wasn't tasty. Anyway, we left Kandy by train on a 7 hour trip to Ella. It was very crowded but we had decided to spring the extra $2 each for a seat in the observation car which travels in the back. Much to my chagrin, I found that it was full of old European couples - Dutch, German, French. Oh well - I reasoned - old people need to travel as well. It was only at the end of the trip I caught my reflection , and, shit, goddamn, I looked just like them. It was a shock to the 
system. It took me several gin and tonics to calm down. Anyway, back to the train,! This was a beautiful train ride through the hill country, up through pine forests, through many tea plantations and picturesque towns and villages. Children would always return waves with huge smiles on their faces and some adults got in on the act as well. The train goes through land that isn't accessible by road so there was some very unspoilt scenery - rivers, waterfalls, jungle and forest. This observation car was a funny thing - like I said, it was at the back of the train and so the train's reaction to the irregularity of the track 
was like when you snap a rope. The last car - us - seemed to be bouncing up and leaving the track at times. I was very thankful that I had no 'tummy troubles' because this motion would have proved disastrous. We travelled from the early morning, ate a packed lunch on the train, and arrived at our destination at around 4:30 in the afternoon time - funnily enough - also G & T time. Our hotel was a fairly small place that overlooked the valley route that we would be taking the following morning. It was also just down the road from a Buddhist temple so we were serenaded by prayer chants that wafted through the trees to us.
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