hi well our trip to sri lanka finished on a negative note
we had a great stay in sri lanka our final stay at banana garden guest resort was great we stayed for 2 nights here at mirissa beach about 50 meters from the beach we had 2 days relaxing and swimming in great waves now molly is not so scared of the surf now we ate at ret 1 roti cafe near our guest house and on the final day we athlete at kama restaurant that just opened a month ago Great tapas and and guy playing music for about 3 hours and perfect finish to our trip
the next day we got up early and caught the train from weliga ma to colombo fort a change here and then to and import train station everything was going okay till train was late and then we had to take a train to another station and then swap platforms walking over the tracks then on 1 train then thru the next after about 15 mins we finally got on the right train but it was so busy so we stood by door and then sat with feet on steps perfect and cool molly loved it ,we arrived at station then a quick bus to airport all for under 10 dollars fro a 6 hour journey when a taxi would have been 100 dollar we arrived at the arrived import and this is where our trouble began at check in desk they would not let’s us board because our tickets to was from colombo to chennia then chennai to bangkok but as the terminals were different we had to change but we did not have a transit visa so we were not allowed to board so we then booked a ticket direct to bangkok costing 20 dollars for 3 of us but at the check in desk we were told we could not board as we did not have onward flights from bangkok after much talking we went to immigration and was told you need a exit flight from Thailand and a train ticket is not okay so we then had to book more flights out of thailand even though we wanted to go overland so another 250 dollars gone but we won’t use flight will try to cancel as we will be in chiang rai not bangkok when flight goes
NEXT problem we had was another bangkok airport when we got there we found out that visa rules have changed from December for lithuanian nationals so jolanta had to go thru a different immigration gate to me and molly we had already filled our forms out but now jolanta need 1000 baht ours was free we took about 1 hour to clear but jolanta took 2 hours and so many questions about onward travel where she was staying why she was coming to thailand ,eventually she got thru and we then realised that our original tickets were to the smaller airport Don mueang so we sneaked on a shuttle bus for free to there and saved 15 dollars we then got a bus to our hotel at 07.00 after 24 hours travelling LIFE ON THE ROAD I LOVE IT
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