Arriving to Galle we were least to say tired. We took one of the rickshaw touts marketing cheap rooms in the fort area. On our way we saw a lot of Buddha statues and shrines, though this town is multireligious with buddhists, muslims, hindus and christians crowding the streets.
We arrived to the first hostel, a fancy one with over double the price what we agreed to pay. No problem, they took us to the next place. Also a fancy one called "Frangipani" (meaning a white flower tree). They have two buildings with rooms to rent, facing eachother with a quiet street inbetween. Luckily they had one fine backroom without window but access to a shared balcony that suited our needs and budget.
Staying in there we made friends with our neighbour; a swedish metalguitar hero Michael and learnt to drink Arrack (Sri Lankan coconut liquer). The fort area is nice and full of old Dutch memorabilia, like VOC buildings, churches etc. From time to time it was hard to say had we ever left from Hoorn ;)
After walking around the fort few times we decided to half our maintenance costs and only eat outside the fort. The center has a lot of shopping to offer and we found a big supermarket to buy everything we needed for a right price. Around the christmas eve the whole town fort got a lot busier - European airports had been opened again after the snow had melted. So in the end we were lucky having our room as there was daily people being send away coming to ask for vacancy during christmas.
We celebrated christmas by fetching a breakfast full of surprice-buns and cakes from bakery; you never know what you will find inside, spicy vegetables or sweet cream or for us uneatable stinky somethings. And we changed our daily fried rice meal to a bucketful of expensive pasta. It was time to move on forward away from 'touristtown' and it's popular fortwalk.
Fort seen from Railwaystation
Street next to Frangipani motel
Staying in there we made friends with our neighbour; a swedish metalguitar hero Michael and learnt to drink Arrack (Sri Lankan coconut liquer). The fort area is nice and full of old Dutch memorabilia, like VOC buildings, churches etc. From time to time it was hard to say had we ever left from Hoorn ;)
Dutch church
VOC building (united East-Indian company from Dutch colonial times)
After walking around the fort few times we decided to half our maintenance costs and only eat outside the fort. The center has a lot of shopping to offer and we found a big supermarket to buy everything we needed for a right price. Around the christmas eve the whole town fort got a lot busier - European airports had been opened again after the snow had melted. So in the end we were lucky having our room as there was daily people being send away coming to ask for vacancy during christmas.
Our Christmas "tree"
We celebrated christmas by fetching a breakfast full of surprice-buns and cakes from bakery; you never know what you will find inside, spicy vegetables or sweet cream or for us uneatable stinky somethings. And we changed our daily fried rice meal to a bucketful of expensive pasta. It was time to move on forward away from 'touristtown' and it's popular fortwalk.
Nice x-mas"tree" :p
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