Tag: Roshan

Our album of Galle photos, all 31 of them, can be seen through the flickr album below:

No tennis today, so rose a little later and took massage at 9 am. Back to Milton for Ged and Roshan for Daisy.

I think it was this occasion when I had a bizarre conversation with Milton, who was telling me all about his ancestors, whose names were Arthur, Alfred and such names. I said to him, “it’s interesting to me that everyone you have mentioned in your family has an English-style first name, until Roshan”. Milton went very quiet for a moment and then said, “but Roshan IS an English name!” That was me told.

We take breakfast after massage and rest a while to let oils settle. Ged tries hoppers with sambal.

Meanwhile Prageeth has gone off in search of a duck for us, which nearly turned out to be a wild goose chase but in the end was a successful wild duck chase.

He gets the duck from Labudawa Farm, near Labudawa Junction, circa 12 km from Galle and returns around 12 noon.

We then go shopping with Prageeth. I buy sandals (two pairs) and three shirts – Daisy merely buys a pac-a-mac. We also buy a memory stick for the photos (8 GB) and discover that many boutique shops are closed for a local (Muslim) holiday.

Back to the fort, first to the ATM, where Ged [accidentally] drops his stuff in the bin before retrieving his card, only to have the card time-out and be swallowed [by the machine] while Ged picks up the bits. This proves to be a difficult problem with two days of public holiday in train.

But Prageeth at least find one bank employee who he knows, who assures us that if the card is in there – which of course it is – it will be held for me until Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

We then go to Exotic briefly, then KK Collection and buy gifties for Charlie plus some utensils for Ged and Daisy plus some nice rattan mats for Ged.

Then home for some beer, nibbles, sun, swimming, R&R, etc., before 18:00 yoga class (mostly for Daisy) and pool and then change for dinner.

We feast on the duck with pineapple in a coconut gravy with rice and salad washed down with the last of our wine. Daisy flakes, so Ged beats himself at pool a couple of times.

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:

Of course the headline “crabby existence” is a pun. This was the day we went in search of crabs in Galle. Our few days of villa life in Galle Fort itself was far from crabby. We had been very lucky to be afforded the opportunity to hire an entire villa, 41 Lighthouse Street, (normally shared between half-a-dozen people at least), as it had just come back onto the holidays market after a couple of years in the hands of a long stay family. The owners wanted to test run the team with holiday letting again so were happy to give me and Janie exclusive use of the place for a few days. Utter luxury.

Rise again before six, coffee and biscuits and then tennis. Five all – both of us had chances to dominate and win.

Sadly, Mendis doesn’t have a court at 7 o’clock for the next couple of days, but we book 23rd and 24th February.

Then off to fish market in search of crab – no joy there. We then try Keells Supermarket, where Daisy/we bought nuts and nibbles and chocolate etc and rice.

We try one more supermarket – no joy – and then a fishing village just outside town near the Dewata Junction – our last chance and bingo!

We land the last two crabs in Galle. A thousand rupees ($10-ish).

Into town again and buy some coconuts on the way, plus red bear key ring to replace my broken camera strap; the crabs are meanwhile trying to break for freedom.

Back for breakfast then 12:00 massage today (we switch masseurs).

Then we release the team and enjoy swimming, R&R etc.

We take some king coconut and go for a stroll looking at shops (Barefoot and especially KK Collection highlights), then check out the Amangalla, home for write ups and dinner.

Our other Sri Lanka photos- 79 excluded from the album – can be found through the link below: