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28 February 1906 — Kandy | |
Wednesday. 28th [February 1906]. We started off for a drive at 7.30 & on to see the country all round Kandy by Lady Horton’s drive. It is all so lovely with tropical vegetation & beautiful flowering trees that it is a constant delight. After 9 o’cl breakfast we took the train to Nuwara Eliya where we stayed with old Miss Barbara Layard, the youngest of a family of 26 children born to her parents. Her father & Henry’s were brothers & they were brothers of my grandmother Lady Lindsey. The line up from Kandy is most beautiful—winding up & up till one gets [illegible word]– There one has to take the light railway wh winds up a most precipitous height till one finds oneself 6200 ft above the sea. In the train we met 2 Australian ladies who had travelled with the Aldersons & me from Jullundur to Amritzar! Old Miss Barbara Layard was at the station to meet us on our arrival. Her house Grimsthorpe is close by. She went home in her rickshaw. Nela & I walked. Her house is quite English like. She built it herself. The flowers are lovely. It seemed to us rather cold after the tropical heat of Kandy. The view from the house down the valley is fine– Tea gardens on the hill sides & many Australian trees grow well. | |
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