article_snippet.sent: Kandy, where the British beat the last king of Ceylon in 1815, still feels like a charming, antique outpost of empire.
article_snippet.sent: It is dotted with guesthouses that recall Tunbridge Wells.
article_snippet.sent: The colonial throwbacks include a bus station clock that chimes like Big Ben.
article_snippet.sent: There are red King George V post boxes and immaculate old Morris Minors, Hillman Minxes and Ford Anglias.
article_snippet.sent: The little station on the Colombo to Galle line close by my hotel felt like a slumbering country halt from 1950s Britain.
article_snippet.sent: Another epic rail journey is Colombo to Trincomalee, the east coast city closed to the world by civil war until recently and still to be discovered by tourism.