Really our last day although tomorrow we have time on our hands before we set off for Colombo and then the airport in the afternoon.
This was a fairly laid back day if you can be laid back while pouring sweat and plodding the streets. We went off to have breakfast in the AM. That was nice and relaxed. Then we were going off to the New Town outside the walls to the Dutch Market and a state run tourist shop for souvenirs that Kathy Kimpton had recommended. We decided to get a Tuk Tuk there because we didn’t really know where we were going. The Dutch Market that we’d heard so much about was a complete fizzer. We then went to the Tourist Shop and lo and behold…another fizzer. So we scuttled back into our Fort. We went home to use the loo (always a rather unpredictable experience in this part of the world) then set off for lunch. We went back to A Minute by Tuk Tuk and had some food and fluids then set off again to do a bit of shopping. Shop, shop…last day…panic, panic.
Then we came back to the accommodation to drop things off. Stayed briefly and then set off again for a bit more shopping. Interspersed with a couple of Singapore Slings on the balcony overlooking the sea. Then back home for the nicest couple of hours of the day sitting on our balcony overlooking the ramparts and watching the sun go down with Sri Lankans walking along the ramparts and playing cricket in front of us. I swear one of those guys is a member of the Sri Lankan Test Team, he was so good!!
Time to go out for dinner. We had been planning for a special swanky dinner for our last night and we achieved this, it was delicious at a place called “The Fort Printers”. I had the lobster I was hankering after…so divine!! It was marred only by the fact that I swiped a glass off the table at the very last minute… so bad. But we got over that…Rose was mortified, but again not the end of the world. Home we came and tomorrow we start to pack up to get ourselves back to the people we love the most!!