Sri Lanka...
If there's anything that's going to cure the winter blues its jetting off for a month of sun just as the temperatures are starting to require more that just a thin coat. Being a cricket fan has certain perks of getting the chance to visit slightly more adventurous countries in the middle of winter and I wasn't about to pass up an opportunity to leave home for a month and follow England around. Sri Lanka had always been the very top of my list of cricket tours to go on so the wait for October 31st to come around almost 8 months after we had booked our flight seemed to be an eternity. Not only just the cricket, mum had made our trip almost a guided tour of Duran Duran music video hotspots...it became a bit of a running joke we would spend more time in ancient areas than watching the actual cricket. My track record of travelling to Asia hasn't been great with this trip starting no different...another episode of nearly passing out on the plane and needin...