Three weeks ago my husband and I arrived in Colombo for the first day of our honeymoon. The city we found and the city we left could not have been more devastatingly different.
It was three weeks ago that my husband and I arrived in Colombo for the first day of our honeymoon.
A Sri Lankan police officer patrols outside the same mosque last week in the wake of the Easter Sunday attacks.The normally traffic-clogged roads were wide open. Footpaths were no longer spilling over, and tourists were nowhere to be seen.Instead, black and white flags hung from buildings and poles, quivering across doorways and highways.Only three days earlier, the nation we'd been so enjoying exploring was suddenly front-page news.
Once inside, men wielding automatic rifles stood at every entrance, at each stairwell, by the pool, and on the ocean-front. Somehow, staff continued to smile through the immense loss that surrounded them.It was a level of resilience that was greatly appreciated by the few remaining travellers. But ask them how they felt, and they would tell you: they were heartbroken, afraid and angry.
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