Jon and I arrived into Sri Lanka’s Batunayake Airport on the outskirts of Colombo late on 5th Sept. Batunayake Airport is mental. There is no kind of queuing system through immigration at all; with Sri Lankans jumping from one queue to another to expedite their exit and desks just closing with a queue of 30 in front of them.

On the plane, the Sri Lankans were similarly fidgety and impatient. None wanted the seats they had been allocated and some refused to sit down. When the safety briefing began one guy started punching the TV because they had all been turned off. Then, as we began rolling down the runway, one guy started making a phone call on his

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