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Before you come out to a country "Read the flippin' guide books!!"

Met a couple of English people at the hotel over the weekend. It would seem that they had experienced a rather disastrous start to their holiday of a lifetime for one reason or another, but the main problem for them was the rain!

Somehow they have managed to book a holiday to Sri Lanka in monsoon season. I'm amazed they managed to book it at all. Sri Lanka doesn't tend to appear until the winter holiday brochures are out anyway.

It just goes to show that you need to do research before heading off somewhere exotic.

Oh and that holiday brochures do lie. There is a big hotel in Colombo that within the grounds does seem pretty fantastic and in the brochures it looks stunning. What you don't see is where it is located, with a railway track running behind it and a very urban area. Stepping out of the gate would not be a pleasant experience to most people visiting it. The beach outside it isn't nice and as a white face you get a lot of hassle.