Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:
Slightly later rise and we swim rather than play tennis. Then we take a good breakfast and pack.
We say a fond goodbyes to Amal, Sanjay, Wojciech, Justyna and all.
Our driver, Ganesh, arrived early but seem to like the Frangipani atmosphere. We transferred to Aditya via Galle Fort to collect my bank card!
Check-in at Aditya – seems short of staff so we take beer and nuts and then enjoy the afternoon coming to terms with our huge suite and especially it’s sundeck.
We dined around 1930. Tasty beef salad and seer fish supreme, followed by rum infused chocolate flan – then “we” watched the rest of the cricket – well actually Daisy nodded off, Ged watched it.
Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below:
Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:
Early rise and it is clammy. Tennis feels like real hard work – Ged wins 6-2.
Shower and take breakfast. Again enjoy the resort; read, take a little sun, share a Sri Lankan curry to fish lunch, finish Finkler, swim and then played cricket with staff and a couple of guests.
The big left-hander top scores again for the oppo at 75 or 80 of the 109. Ged gets less wally than most, takes two wickets and a catch (Michael the English guest). Ged’s team struggled to 22 for three but then Ged and Amal (who clearly has hidden depths and strength) muster 70 odd in six overs to at least make a respectable total.
Shower and then return to photograph the sunset.
Dinner of jumbo prawns with chips and salad (eventually) interrupted by darkness as our side of Olive Ridley needs a shilling in the meter . We move to the other side, then back for banana bread and ice cream and watch a bit of Oz V Zim with “M”.
Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below:
Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:
Another tough day in paradise beckons.
Ged rises mega early to see if the swarming swallows arrival of the evening is replicated in reverse in the morning – it isn’t!
Daisy and I played tennis; 5-5 – very tight game.
Then shower, breakfast, reading (When Freddie Became Jesus, then started The Finkler Question). Snack lunch of burger to share and beer to share, then more reading.
A late afternoon stroll to Wijaya for cocktails with the expats. Moscow Mules and Arak Sours.
Then tuk tuk home. No real sunset to speak of. Watch the swallows swarm as usual and then some R&R before supper.
Tiger prawns with salad and chips (switched the rice) and wine again!
Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below:
Here is a link to the King Cricket piece, which relates to one of several games of garden cricket on that holiday – this one at the Frangipani Tree, near Galle, on 19 February:
Frankly, some of the comments are better than my report – it is worth reading for them. King Cricket can be like that.
Lord’s isn’t the only place where cricket and tennis intertwine
Here is my contemporaneous journal record for the whole day:
Very heavy overnight rain – some of Daisy’s things get wet – no point in even considering tennis this morning at seven – Daisy does hair drying instead.
We invent our own exercise regime.
Breakfast, reading (Kalooki Nights), lunch of grilled calamari, chips and bread! With beer.
World Cup [cricket] 2011 starts but we play our own garden version.
Five aside, Wojciech refuses to play but tennis ball cricket enables Daisy to have a go.
We make a respectable 89 for three of eight (I scored 15 in an open stand of 40 odd). We meet “Major General” Richard and his sporty son Chris (my opening partner) and daughter Millie and who knows we might meet the wife (Rosie?).
Our side loses as big fella Sanjay takes advantage of asymmetric field which helps left-hander with big hitting ability.
Even Daisy scores a run off my bowling.
More reading afterwards, followed by dinner of lamb tajine followed by chocolate ice cream washed down with a Spanish Crianza
Tough day.
Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:
Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below:
Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:
Overnight: THE MYSTERY OF THE STRANGE DISAPPEARING SOAP!
(Squirrels crawl through the bathroom slats and take the small bars, Amal tells us!)
Amal brings us an early morning coffee and we play tennis.
We shower and take breakfast in the cool shady breezy spot where we had dinner last night.
We read, having bagged a quiet breezy spot on the lawn. We take a snack lunch of tuna sandwich with some chips and salad washed down with a beer. We read some more.
We get ready for dinner, observing the swallows that nest for the night in the coconut trees outside our room.
Huge dinner of prawn samosas, crab with rice and veg, but the centre piece was the crab. Valdavieso Sauvignon Blanc washes it down and a flourless chocolate cake is the final straw.
Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below:
Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:
The only downside to our amazing arrangements for the restful part of our holiday in/near Galle was the requirement to move on a couple of times. Yet the transfers were all smooth and the journeys only a few minutes, so we felt in retrospect it had been worth it. This was the first of those transfer days.
Again rise a little later. Get most of the packing done and take massage again at eight. Daisy has head and foot massage with Milton, while I had the full works with Roshan.
Then again we take breakfast while the oils settle.
A final look at our amazing villa
Ged swims and then sunbathes for a while. Daisy showers and packs some more. We are collected at 13:00 – fond farewells with Praseeth, Roshan and Wanitha.
Then a 15 to 20 minute drive east to Thale, where [at The Frangipani Tree] we are greeted by our Polish hosts from Krakow, Wojciech Raus and Justyna.
Some confusion over our room, so we sit in a shady breezy spot & nibble some bread and hummus over a beer. We also order lobster for our dinner tonight.
We then go to our room and unpack. Ged takes a short late afternoon stroll but mostly we read before dinner. Daisy also ordered prawn samosas to share as a nibble, but veggie ones came by mistake. Comps!
Will try the prawn one is another day.
The lobster was delicious. Always wash down with a bottle of Valdivieso Chardonnay.
Daisy also tries a desert described optimistically as a pavlova, but all in all it was a lovely dinner.
Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below:
