Elvis turned on the radio, maybe he was searching for himself, aren’t we all in some way? Faded memory tells me I discovered myself when I was around 12 years old during an episode of Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols aka Lieutenant Uhura was probably too much for most adolescent males of that era 😉
But I digress this is Sri Lanka some thirty years later and Elvis is our taxi driver intent on ensuring we see everything. Elvis suggested he take us to the Spice Garden, I suggested maybe he could think again. The Princess (different princess, this is a few years ago) thought it might be good, well I suppose one of us had to be amiable, but she hadn’t pooed her pants two hours earlier. A nice man showed us around, he offered me some leaves – I was about to eat them – the Princess squealed and he grabbed my hand, ‘I think he wants you to smell them,’ she said. Sorry, but if you shove something in my face I’m going to eat it, so we wandered, smelling things then he presented something that looked like a cross between Angel Delight and mud – again sadly not edible – this apparently was going to be spread on the Princess’ face and after a few, ‘no,no,no really it’s fine.’ she got plastered, lets just say it didn’t smell like Angel Delight and I wasn’t about to taste it. A few minutes later with a fresh faced partner Elvis took us off again. After a short drive – surprise! – he discovered (yeah right) two children with a Porcupine at the side of the road.
‘Aha, you want to have picture of Porcupine?’ I looked into his rear view mirror, ‘Not really,’ but after a dig in the ribs. ‘Yes we’d love to.’ Out we got, knowing the kids would want a tip I grabbed some change. Smile, click, tip and done. Then I noticed the women in the river doing the weekly wash and walked over to investigate when a bunch of children approached me. They lovingly held out there arms and I thought I would divide the rest of the change equally. It took them about 2 seconds to prise my hand open and grab the money. They then started clamoring, have you ever been clamored by a bunch of kids? I legged it back to Elvis and we hit the road once more. Next time a checkpoint, a soldier with a knife and a Mango then there’s that toilet ;-(
Sounds like quite a memorable trip. Leave it to you to go into such loving detail! And, cool pix. Thanks.
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Thanks Barbara 😘
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Love the opening sentence here, Charlie.
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Thank you Pete 👍
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Fun post! Very interesting. And you’re so right about Lt. Uhura.
Plus, I’ve always wanted to pet a porcupine.
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Thank you and thanks for the follow, I hear they can be a bit spiky 😂
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I think as long as you pet WITH the grain, you’ll be fine. 😀
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Lovely!
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Thank you Luisa 💐
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❤
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Would you ever go back?
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Oh yes, the people are lovely, but my next big trip will be India, just need a spare month or two 😂 Thank you for reading 💐
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I love reading about true travel experiences, so thanks for writing!
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Thanks so much for reading and your comments 💐
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What I wouldn’t give to leave the country for something like that right now. Nice pics and good read 🙂
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Thank you I really appreciate that 💐
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love the pic of the children and porcupines!
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Yes it was lovely, but a friend of mine who visited several months later had the same photo lol
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Great Pictures!
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Thank you 💐😀
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way to close to a porcupine for me.. 😉
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They had it on a lead 😂😂
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I have experience with dead porcupines (but that is another story) – very glad you saw them.
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Oh, so you did really poo your pants? I thought it was actually a joke when you mentioned it in Part One. 😂
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😂😂😂 It was only a tiny one, but yeah, probably the Fish Curry I had for breakfast 😂 Thanks for reading Raquel 💐
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😂😂😂
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No, no, no…don’t eat THAT. Now, I understand the poo-problem. 🤔
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😂😂😂 Thank you 😀
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