{"id":21398,"date":"2017-02-03T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15916"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:28:21","slug":"colombo-to-kochchikade-on-lifeday-25393","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=21398","title":{"rendered":"Colombo to Kochchikade on Lifeday 25,393"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Morning<\/a>
Morning traffic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The early start didn’t go quite as planned probably because I didn’t get to bed until after midnight \ud83d\ude41 Everything went in my bags OK although I’m sure quite a few clothing items\u00a0will never get used.<\/p>\n

Shock horror \u00a0on reaching the main road to see it totally jammed up at 7.15am, Total nightmare \ud83d\ude42 at one point I saw a bakery\/cafe open so popped in to get some egg noodles. This was a hard boiled egg plonked on top of\u00a0a plate of noodles! I devoured it anyway. The traffic was still doing its stop\/go antics and buses determined to squash me into their stops and passengers leaping out of\u00a0Tuk Tuks determined to knock me off.<\/p>\n

The traffic continued unabated after a while I began to realise that Strava had lazily put me on the main road rather than a minor road route. After yesterdays dead ends etc I could see why.maybe Strava took the easy way out. However, I was getting fed up with the buses and trucks so I gambled that the road along the beach would be OK.<\/p>\n

It was a good call suddenly I could relax and see the real Sri Lanka, I celebrated by drinking a coconut \ud83d\ude42 the road surface was good apart from where a wheeled vehicle had run through the setting concrete \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I eventually arrived at the tourist mecca of Ettukala with dozens of hotels and lots of very white people. I was tiring even after my 6 stops in the 30 or so miles, the traffic noise, lack of sleep & the heat plus a headwind made me think of calling it a day even at 1pm. I came across a sign pointing down a lane saying ‘Emel boutique hotel” Intrigued \u00a0I ventured down the lane and found it on a nasty bend, the booking.com price seemed OK.<\/p>\n

They gave me a slap up lunch and two beers with the net result I slept all afternoon \ud83d\ude42 Hopefully tomorrow I will get away at 7am and this time I’ve made Strava use the back roads.<\/p>\n

Just hope I sleep OK, it’s close to the flight path to the airport and the neighbour has dogs that I’ve heard barking \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

The Strava for the 35.7 miles is here <\/a>and the pictures are on Dropbox here<\/a><\/p>\n

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All religions catered for<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The early start didn’t go quite as planned probably because I didn’t get to bed until after midnight \ud83d\ude41 Everything went in my bags OK although I’m sure quite a few clothing items\u00a0will never get used. Shock horror \u00a0on reaching the main road to see it totally jammed up at 7.15am, Total nightmare \ud83d\ude42 at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}