Bike Bath

The rainy season is supposed to start in October, but it’s early this year. After a meeting on the coast I headed back to Ampara, 30km, you could see the black clouds all the way. I got to the checkpoint at the outskirts of town before it started raining and sheltered in the bike shed at the Sewalanka office. It’s quite good when it rains nobody bothers where you go to shelter, the security guard even brought me a chair. After half an hour the rain eased and I foolishly made a dash for home 5 mins away. I got about 300m before the deluge, totally soaked! Interesting though that the puddles were full of warm muddy water, not unpleasant to drive through.