Car hire in Colombo, Sri Lanka

If you’re looking to hire a car in Sri Lanka we had a great experience with Ocean Tours. At first we went to another place called something like carson. They told me on the phone they had a car for a price, when we arrived the next day it had apparently “gone”. We were given a choice of a much smaller car or a similar car for much more money.

Turns out Nirosh at Ocean Tours sorted us with a much better car, cheaper. We got a Mazda 3 for 20k a week. Bargain. Great car. Great service. I think it might have sweetened the deal that I told him I was standing in the car park of hist competitor and unless he gave me a price I was not coming to his office! Worked out great for us. The traffic was pretty mental though, best I could average was about 40km/h!

I think the air con with smoking in some bars has gotten the better of me, sore throat last couple of days, voice no longer working… :-(

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Listening to a live orchestra next to the Thai paralympic team in their London 2012 shirts at Lumpini Park. Very civilised Sunday evening!

I slept, I finally slept! After 5 sleepless nights on the trot, last night I actually slept, oh sweet sleep how I missed you so…

Looking for somebody coming to Thailand in the next month or so. Any suggestions? Want to buy a laptop and have somebody bring it out… :-)

Back from the wedding, very relaxed affair. Quick spot of fiddling and now we have wifi in Dan Sai, I’m all set for the next week… :-)

Up before 7 and off on a 20km motorbike ride to a Thai wedding. Part of the wedding was at 6, we missed that bit! Will try to take pictures.

Turns out the bus was actually 12:30 not 12:00, we arrived 12:20, whoops! Another bus might take us most of the way, the adventure begins…

So it turns out the login page for Terminal 21′s free wifi (linked to your government issued id) is http, no SSL in sight. Oh temptation…

Can’t leave with my purchase until I sign atop “signature not required”! At some point I realise, why am I arguing? Gotta love Thailand! :-)

Turns out downloading movies from streaming sites is actually viable. Maybe the inability to torrent is not as bad as I initially thought…

Arriving at Chatuchak weekend market, more than 8k stalls over 35 acres doing more than $1m USD each Saturday and Sunday, have I gone nuts?

Struggled through almost 2 hours of Jackie Chan’s latest film Chinese Zodiac / CZ12 before we finally had to leave. Don’t recommend it.

Leaving a club at 3am on a Monday to find a full scale street party in full flow, could only be Khao San! :-)

I still get a kick out of ordering food from the restaurant downstairs on an internal call. It’s the simple pleasures in life… :-)

Very clever PayPal phishing email to my paypal@ address, with an HTML attachment to open “securely” in my browser. Very cunning. Almost…

After a couple of hours hacking Composer is tracking metrics with the awesomely simple stathat.com. Public dashboards to follow…

Quick internal call downstairs and there’s a fried rice on its way! Apparently the chef was off drunk yesterday, but back in action today!

Apparently changing the MAC address resets the bandwidth cap in the apartment! Oh Chillispot, it is ON, I will OWN you! #chillispothacking

Deal done, bag moved in, fridge stocked with junk food, wifi online. I officially have an apartment in Bangkok! :-) Rm507, 51 Ladprao Soi 35

Turns out my phone doesn’t support 3G on 850MHz, so my mobile internet sucks in Thailand and there’s no simple solution. Time for a Nexus 4?

Couple of hours from Bangkok now. Rolling south on the bus from Dan Sai. It was very pleasant up there in the quiet, peaceful north…