At 4.45 am Paul sat bolt upright in bed. Rain was coming through the roof of the hotel and through our ceiling and the bed was soaking wet. There was no reply from reception so Sue went down and the security guard had to wake the receptionist who allocated us another room along the corridor. We checked it was dry before moving all our stuff. The receptionist was very apologetic and said it was a very old building. Queen Victoria stayed here but doubt she had water coming through the ceiling.
We didn't really get back to sleep and had a fairly early start for our 3 hour journey to Anuradhapura, an ancient city with plenty of temples etc. As it was a long way, we decided to stay at a guesthouse overnight which was really lovely and overlooked rice paddies. The lady there organised a tuk tuk and driver to take us round most of the important sites. Unfortunately the weather was showeery but the driver lent us an umbrella so we didn't have to don our waterproofs which would have been sweat-inducing in these temperatures.
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