Galle to Colombo on a leftover-rain Wednesday — Southern Expressway van or the coastal train from Galle station
We need Colombo by late afternoon. Highway van is a prepaid pin. Coastal train is the view we wanted. Leftover rain, not a cyclone. Bags are two backpacks.
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Expressway van if the clock is real. Coastal train if you can miss a sit and you like the sea wall. 19 Aug leftover rain does not close the Southern Expressway. The coast road is slower and prettier and will puddle. Do not invent a festival extra on either. Ask the station board for the train, not a cousin.
We took the highway van, sat, arrived. Fine. Train would have been a postcard and a maybe.
Coast road in leftover rain with a driver who wants to 'show you the bays' is how you miss Colombo.
We took the quieter fork on this: Galle to Colombo on a leftover-rain Wednesday. Fine. No one clapped.
Kids: sit. Pride turns 'Galle to Colombo on a leftover-rain Wednesday' into a speech at the kerb.
Ask two locals. The first number about Galle to Colombo on a leftover-rain Wednesday is a test, not a fee I will invent.
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