Took exercise in the suite and also took a little sun before checking flights and then breakfast.
Aditya breakfast included juice and fruit, kola kanda, breads and danish, sausages, eggs, baked beans, roti potatoes and yoghurt!
Took more sun and reading until about 1400 when we washed, paid up, finish packing and left Aditya with Samantha pronounced Saman-dthe.
Very long drive, horrendous traffic and Ged started to panic a bit although we reached the airport with a good 90 minutes before takeoff.
Comedy urgent search for club lounge and many many security checks.
Then at Chennai we had a farcical transit missing the chance to go out for a few hours in favour of some comedic transit fun including upsetting security by sitting on the only free seats and BA having to go through the motions of taking us back in baggage wise and reissuing our boarding passes.
Still we spoke some interesting folk e.g. the Norwegian businessman pulling out of Sri Lanka and a nice bloke from DHL outsourcing to Chennai.
Amazingly we and our luggage arrived home in a timely fashion.
Tag: Aditya Resort
Our Last Full Day On this Journey, At The Aditya, Including Obscene Amounts Of Food, 24 February 2011
Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:
Our last full day starts early with tennis at Lighthouse – Ged prevails despite lack of strapping!
Say tearful goodbye to Prageeth, wash and take Sri Lankan breakfast of Kola Kanda with jaggery (red rice soup) & hoppers, fish, daal curry, Pol (coconut) sambal, hoppers, chicken curry and string hoppers plus juice and fruit of course and other sambals – that’s all!
Stagger back to our sweet and enjoy the sun deck.
Early evening we take massage – deep tissue for me and Aditya Signature for Daisy.
Then splendid supper of papaya and prawn salad (a little bland) followed by an amazing seafood platter just one to share and we were then so full we retired without pud.
Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below:
A Day At The Aditya, On Which We Took Many A Sunset Photo, 23 February 2011
Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:
Rose early and Prageeth took us to Lighthouse Hotel for tennis via an unscheduled stop when is tuk tuk ran out of diesel.
Uneventful ride home, shower, and then enjoy the sundeck most of the day.
Short stroll down to beach late afternoon…
…and photograph the sunset from our sundeck – stunning.
Then some R&R before dinner, which was crab in an oriental sauce with chips and salad. Coconut banana dessert was worth the wait! Looked at photos before sleep.
Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below:
Switch To Aditya, Near Galle, 22 February 2011
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.
Watched England struggle to beat the Netherlands at cricket.
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: