9th Nov. Hikkaduwa

Breakfast was a good start to the day. The place may not be luxurious, but they try hard to make up for this by offering larger than average portions: ommelet, sausage tomato, bread, jelly/compote, coffee, lassi.
Another tuk tuk got me to the local train station at Kattuwa, but the wait for the connecting train for Colombo was a bit long.
Still, more local 'colour' to photograph.
The train journey wasn't great - standing up for quite a bit of it - but we got to Hikkiduwa along the coast, past several beach-side hotels, bars and assorted hovels okay.
Hikkaduwa was a bit of a gamble. It's slightly touristy in that beach bum, surf's up kind've way but without much or real excitement. The hoped-for sunset got a lot of people down to the beach expectantly, but it was a weak affair.
On the way back to my digs, I found a lovely welcome from a woman in a little kiosk I'd not noticed before. I asked if she sold coffee, and she invited me in. It was actually her home, so I sat with the family, drinking coffee and arranged to have breakfast there in the morning.Read more