There are so many birds here like Ravens or crows I don't know what they are but
there's loads of them they keep setting fireworks off to scare them out the way
anyway morning from Columbo.
We just had a quick breakfast here at the hotel before heading back to the
International Airport here in Colombo. Cabs not until 11 o'clock so we've got
about half an hour so we're just here back in the room and Jacq's drying our
socks with the hairdryer. Don't believe me?
See you Friday! Yeah there's more stuff around there to the right. Yeah let's have a
look over there. I didn't see it on the way out all right this is my first time
in Sri Lanka.
The microphone just fell off the camera. Yeah we'll put that in the bloopers reel.
I'm trying to do a serious piece. I was going to do a serious piece to camera on the Sri
Lankan Airlines lounge that they have here at Colombo Airport but it's quite
busy I don't want to disturb people. But we'll give you our thoughts on the
lounge once we get on board. I think our plane's out there now.
I like this map. It's all touchscreen and fancy.
So if you want to get into the lounge in Colombo Airport make sure you get one of these, this is the lounge
invitation it's like a little
boarding pass to get you into the lounge. We got one in Melbourne when we
checked in, but I lost it. When we got to the lounge
in Sri Lanka they wanted us to show this so we could actually get in. In the end it was fine,
they printed one out for us but make sure you hang on to this if you get one
because it makes getting into the lounge a lot easier.
And you don't look like an idiot.
I've set my fair share of things about curries on airplane,
all of them have been negative but I've gotta say,
this is actually really nice. Maybe it's just that we're on Sri Lankan
Airlines that curry feels kind of right here. It is hot though. Look at that chilli.
I don't know if anyone from Sri Lankan Airlines or who might live here can tell me,
What's the thing with garlic bread? You get garlic bread with every meal which is awesome. I love garlic bread.
It is really good at mopping up curry.
It's a little bit turbulent at the moment we're about 25 minutes from Mali.
Now this by the way in case you didn't know this is the business class on an
A330 - 300 unlike the A330 - 200 we had yesterday.
There are 100 more A330s on this plane than the previous one. But I think
there are eight rows on this aircraft in business class. This is a 1 - 2 - 1
configuration so you're travelling on your own, you can do the side seat.
Travelling in a couple like us it's pretty good because you can sit side by side.
Got this barrier in the middle, table, you guys can see it behind me anyway but
it's good legroom. I'm not gonna put the seat
all the way down because the flights only an hour and a half today. But
A330 - 300 versus 200 for business Class on Sri Lankan.
If you had to pick, if you had the choice, go 300. It just seems a lot newer.
The 200 is getting quite old now.
I don't know if you can hear this. I don't mind turbulence, aerobatics great. Flying upside-down no problem with that.
But boats... Why do you like boats so much? They're so fun!
Since I filmed that sequence that you just saw when we were on the boat and we got
off the boat we were welcomed here to the resort, we've just been hanging out
in our little bungalow for the last couple of hours I'll be honest. So I'm
just gonna finish off today's episode here. We're heading out to dinner in a
second but at this view behind me is just unbelievable. Let me just see if I
can get the camera... Yeah look at that. We got the sunset coming down here, the
water behind. You seen the color of the water? Now I'll give you a proper tour of the
resort and that we're staying at the bungalow that we're in as well these are
the overwater bungalows look at this color... all of that over the next few days.
if you're thinking of coming to The Maldives or if you just want to kind of have
a look around and share it with us as well. Before I go and leave you with an
epic time-lapse sunset, I just wanted to give you a bit of an update on the
competition. Now the giveaway with the visa travel cards is still open on the
channel if you haven't entered the competition yet I'll stick the link
below, again all you need to do is click on that link go to the competition page
make sure you're subscribed to the channel and then you get some extra bonus
entries for following me on Twitter Facebook Instagram all that. If you have
entered, thank you so much I'm blown away by how many people have entered so
good luck if you have. If you haven't yet you've still got time to do it before I draw
it on Friday the 16th of March. But there's still plenty of time for you to
enter and hopefully win.