The team had an early start, meeting at Calthorpe park
school at 7am, where we met with the teachers and pupils to take the coach over
to Gatwick. There was a constant flow of baggage coming into one small music
room with most bags being larger than a lot of the pupils. At 7.30 the mammoth
task of packing the coach began but amazingly we managed to hit the road to
Gatwick by 8.
We arrived at Gatwick at 9.30…the M3 and M25 rush hour was
kind to us. Check in was relatively simple and no queues as we had arrived
6hours before the flight… We killed time in duty free, restaurants and catching
up with each other before the long flight to Dubai (7hrs).
We arrived in Dubai with no delays following a comfortable
flight – everyone seemed to love the new Emirates A380. We then had a short
wait at Dubai (2hrs) which was mostly taken up by security and walking to the
connection. At 2.30am local time we sleepily boarded our flight to Colombo
(4hrs). Again, another lovely Emirates flight, with a choice of Curry or
Omelette for breakfast. Most opted for Omelette.
After landing we had a very easy time through immigration
(nobody questioned the 500 toothbrushes and 750 teddies) where we then waited
and waited and waited for our bags to arrive. We eventually got all our bags so
proceeded to find our driver. We were then greeted with beautiful flower
garlands that smelt divine. After approx. 40min drive to Negombo we arrived in
a beachfront hotel where we had enough time to grab some food and have a
much-needed freshen up before the group split. One group went off on a tourist
trip while the other began a 10hr journey up to Killinochchi… A sleepless 27hrs
and counting...
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