Friday 4th October 2013
It’s been a tiring first day in Colombo as we had a 10 & a half hour flight from London last night and only arrived at our hotel at 3pm this afternoon.
Yesterday Alex Hagon and I had a full training day and were joined by Holly Horsfall for our afternoon session before we all headed across London to get to Heathrow. When we arrived at the airport we met up with Holly Hutchinson and even though Holly joined us for the flight she’s got friends in Sri Lanka so will not be an official member of the team this time! However, because Holly gives us such good entertainment, we’re sure to be spending a lot of time with her over the next 2 weeks!!
The flight was quite good despite being quite a long one; Alex managed to get 3 seats to himself so he slept for a good 7+ hours, I managed to get around 4/5 hours and both Holly’s slept a bit so we weren’t too wiped out when we arrived.
As we got off the plane Holly Hutchinson was immediately met by someone who took her through immigration and collected her bags for her (friends in high places eh?!!) while the rest of us fended for ourselves! After we collected our bags we met our driver who took us on a crazy 1 hour journey to our hotel for the next 2 weeks.
The afternoon was spent unpacking and getting a feel for the hotel before we visited the local supermarket to stock up on water and food. I then had a sleep in the afternoon which ended up going on a little more than the 30 minutes I had planned and despite Alex and Holly calling me and banging on my wall, they still couldn’t wake me!
We met up with the Win Tennis team from Bisham Abbey at 7pm for a good dinner and then relaxed in our apartment before having an early night to prepare for our 1st training day tomorrow.
