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The Fish Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was on the road just after 7am for the 40 mile ride up the coast and back to where I started 24 days ago.<\/p>\n

An interesting ride along the beautiful coast, some what marred with so called luxury hotels hidden behind\u00a0their prison height walls \ud83d\ude41 with an intermingling of shacks and closer to Colombo a veritable shanty town around the railway line. Pretty astonishing such poverty in so much natural beauty.<\/p>\n

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Sawmill by the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The road I came into Colombo was just full of workshops either sawing up giant tree trunks or making furniture and doors etc. No health and safety here! shudder to think how many fingers and eyes have been lost from the huge circular saws \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I arrived at the West Inn at 1pm for the bike to be reunited with its box \ud83d\ude42 The Strava is here <\/a>and pics here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me at the end of the ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I then spent all afternoon to rearrange my flight home. My word the Qatar Airlines website is a total & utter shambles, glossy on the service but totally broken underneath apart from booking new flights. In the end out of desperation I went to their Facebook page and finally using Facebook Messenger the job was done! but oh how painful \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I will be back home on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Here are the stats of the trip:<\/p>\n