10 Feb A Retreat

We check out of Hikkaduwa today and get a car to Galle. But only once we’ve had breakfast and I have my first cinnamon tea. Its amazing! And food for the belly apparently.

Which is very good news for me!

Im writing this before we go for tea. The homestay is a bit of a work in practice. It’s up a dirty track off a main road near Galle. Galle is a city famous for this Fort and Cricket ground.

We have our own pool! A large room that is going to be a fabulous boutique stay in the future. It’s pretty nice now.

The host is Malik and he is a right character. We get tea whilst the room gets finished up.

Malik runs an aruveydic spa and a gem shop as well as this homestay.

So we get our first taste of wood apple. It’s like a wooden apple but needs cracking with a hammer. He turns it into an aruveduc smoothie.

I guess his age. So I win 2 white topaz gems. All very surreal.

He has big plans and shows us round – he’s building a 3rd room.

We relax and have a dip in the pool – watching birds and hearing monkeys in the nearby trees. I love it.

Pete is warming to it. His choice was an apartment with a large pool, a gym and the sports channel.