Today we were up bright and early in the Sri Lankan sunshine to prepare for our first debrief with Mr Runage. We made recommendations including some quick wins and were very pleased to hear Mr Runage state that he felt we knew almost as much about cinnamon as he had learned in his 30 years. Given that we walked in on day one saying we know nothing about Cinammon, this was great to hear that our hard work had paid off.

After this we met local producers and made similar recommendations for quick wins to them. One or two did not believe that in a week we could have fed back such insightful views and one even asked why we were doing this.

Finally, we enjoyed our final rice and curry with accompaniments and a final chat with Jaggath before we retired pending a 3am start back to Colombo.

FINAL DAY STATISTICS:

• Members of Team: 5
• Number of Ants in Bedroom: 0
• Number of dead ants in bedroom: 0
• Very large spiders in dining room: 1
• Tropical storms: 23 (and one very big one)
• Mosquito bites: 45
• Near misses with falling coconuts: 2
• Near misses with falling palm tree branches: 1 (during the very big storm)
• Balloon animals made: 270
• Cases of diarrhoea: 2
• Appearances on national TV: 2
• Invasion of flying ants: 1
• Possibility of all 5 getting up at 3.00 am to travel to airport: 80%
• Boarding cards lost: 1
• Potential change in cinnamon production: 200%
• Exhausted by happy Durham MBAs: 5