Today, we visited the wife and girls. We met in Negombo and went to the beach. The daughters are wild about swimming. A municipal beach opened in 2000. It’s a lovely place and I can only imagine how popular it must be in the evenings. Today, we went there at about 11:30 am.
The younger daughter probably would have enjoyed staying there for the rest of the day but we stayed only about an hour and a half. We crossed the road for lunch at a Silva’s Beach Resort. The meal was good but the service not so great. It was also not a very good value. Still, it was pleasant enough sitting with the warm wind off the ocean.
Negombo is probably about 18 kilometres from the house with the international airport in between. It really is quite a mature resort. This is off season at present as European tourists generally head here during their winter. Still, rather than the struggle of getting to the southern beaches, if a seaside holiday is the desire, one couldn’t do better than Negombo. There’s white beach as far as the eye can see, plenty of large hotels, lots of small guest houses, a variety of restaurants, and all the other prerequisites for a tropical beach holiday.
We had the same driver and van which have taken us around so much of Sri Lanka during this trip. After dropping Darmika and the girls off at their apartment in Ja-Ela, we got home at about 4:00 pm. I was happy to wash the sea salt off my entire body.