Josh Oldridge
13. Things fall apart and future plans
So came the last full day of the trip. It began at 7am with a round of Wii golf and an iced coffee with Sam, a Maltese guy from the...
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Josh Oldridge
Feb 4, 20206 min
12. Avocados and LDRs
Do I still have time to join the avocado party? There’s late and there’s fashionably late. Maybe after that comes that really awkward...
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Josh Oldridge
Feb 1, 20205 min
11. Elderly Sri Lankan men and sunglasses
Home away from home again. I absolutely love it at Spindrift. On the way to the bus station in Hikkaduwa to get back to Weligama, an...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 29, 20206 min
10. Real love and waves
After a crazy sweaty train ride, for an hour-and-a-half of which nobody could even lift a hand to scratch their nose and three or four...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 26, 20208 min
9. Writing and wrist scars
I am a writer. I am a writer. I am a writer. In his book of tips on how to become a writer in the twenty-first century, Jeff Goins...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 25, 20209 min
8. Alcohol deprivation and opulence
Adam nudged me awake this morning before his bus out to the Knuckles Mountain Range. We hugged and said goodbye. Sad, even if I was a bit...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 23, 20208 min
7. Loud noises and Milo
Ella is a lovely spot. I can’t help but wonder what the rolling hills of misty rainforest would have looked like before tourism, but the...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 21, 202010 min
6. Sweaty buses and Monopoly money
I read in a guidebook before the trip that it’s easy to get stuck in Weligama as the days and even weeks roll by. I can completely...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 17, 20206 min
5. Cinnamon and short-term friendships
I haven’t kept to the self-set schedule of posting a blog update every two days. Apologies to faithful readers. The last few days have...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 13, 20205 min
4. Parrots and online shopping
I’m consistently having some of the best surfs I’ve ever had. While for some people travelling is about never having two days the same...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 11, 20205 min
3. Surfing at dawn and Swiss fiction
I shuffle out from under my thin sheet and slide the big box with number 4 painted on the side – my bed number – out from under my bunk....
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 9, 20207 min
2: Leaving the past behind and an Arabian night
Before I went to the USA on my own after dropping out of uni in Leeds, a very nice friend of mine, who I think sensed I was going through...
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Josh Oldridge
Jan 7, 20206 min
Sri Lankan adventure. 1: Travel fears and Murakami
I woke up this morning to a mixture of giddy excitement and a dull feeling of anxiety. I still haven’t changed the alarm tone on my new...
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