We decided to stay in Colombo until Brock's foot was better, and then head off to the north of Sri Lanka. We ended up spending a week hanging out...and it went something like this:
Get up, head down stairs and across the road for a fried egg and spicy onion relish sanger. A bit of reading, or a chat while drinking Elephant Ginger Beer, followed by a trip to McDonalds for coffee and free Wifi. Lunch at "The Corrner Cafe" by the YMCA for egg fried rice and sambol (a super spicy but amazingly tasty chili relish). A trip down Galle Face Green, maybe a coffee or a beer at the hotel, or egg Kotu or fried rice for diner from the station, or a beer and a film (Fight Club was a definite winner)...
One really amazing thing about Sri Lanka is the food. It's like no other food in the world - and even though I'm not that great a fan of plates of rice - I ended up craving the egg fried rice and sambol...or the deep fried roti with vege or fish filling, or dhal and rice, or egg roti with dhal for breakfast, or deep fried fish, or every other combination of tasty food available on the streets...forget Thai, forget Vietnamese, forget Sushi - Sri Lankan is where it's at...
It's easy to pass time here in Colombo - although there were some other notable events that kept us entertained, like:
- A trip to the visa office to get a visa extension...
- Telling the Tuk Tuk drivers we lived in Colombo so we could get cheap rides to save walking...
- Buying a set of crutches...
- Finally getting Brock's new Ipod...Spending the whole day at the Apple store successfully recovering all the deleted files off the old Ipod and putting them on the new...it was like doing a full days work - we even had out own desk :-)
- Drinking way too much coffee...
- Freezing to death in Mcdonals - and finding amusing ways to complain:
But in the end - we started getting itchy feet (metaphorically of course), and when I woke up one morning looking like this:
...we decided it was time to get out of Colombo...
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