just back from sri lanka ,first holiday in years, an absolutely wonderful place, one of the high points for me was to borrow a really ancient mountain bike (started to fall to bits on the return journey)and rode it along a dusty coastal track next to the Indian ocean , through a fishing village where i got mobbed by kids asking for bon bons (sweets) i was prepared for this and took even more sweets with me than i usually do at home,happy kids,i sat on a beach in the middle of nowhere just taking in everything about the place , didnt take long for some one to spot me and next thing ime being shown how to catch crabs in the sand and how to fish with them , line hook and a coconut shell to bury in the sand for when the tide comes in . I carried on up the coast for a bit longer then started to head back for home , all the time getting waved at by the local folks on bikes and mopeds. this will stick with me as one of my most memorable bike rides, very very basic right back to when i first started biking feel to it . looking forward to my home trails now , cheers .
