Read this blog: The one where Matilda would like to send postcards Sunday 15th March 2026 After the delicious welcome snack of chocolate dipped strawberries which the hotel provided on our arrival [see previous blog post], Matilda had been hopeful that strawberries would be readily available at breakfast. Sadly they never made a repeat appearance, despite us being in a prime strawberry growing area. Surprisingly there was a jar of pickled Scotch Bonnet peppers but it did not look as though this had never been opened. Matilda felt strawberries would have been far more popular. Nuwara Eliya means the ‘city on the plain’ and we used PickMe to order a tuk tuk to take us from our hotel in the hills down into the town. Nuwara Eliya Post Office is a fine building and also a major central landmark so we asked to be dropped there. One of the oldest post offices in Sri Lanka, the Nuwara Eliya Post Office was built by the British in 1894, rather unusually, in a red brick Tudor style with a clock tower. In June 2017 the United Postal Trade Union went on a three-day strike in a successful protest against the government’s plans […]
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