Clearly, all the election posters have not yet been removed. We decided to walk along the road to the south of the house in Minuwangoda. Jayantha has seldom visited that way as it's in the opposite direction to town. In fact, he recounted that it may have last been when his grandmother was still alive in the 1980s. In 2004, I walked around just to see the surroundings. The road was dirt at the time but even today there was not nearly as much new housing as I might have thought.
We were only gone for about fifty minutes. However, we came back pretty sweaty as it was close to the middle of the day. The temperature at that time of day is around 32°C (around 89°F). This is the season when evening thunderstorms often roll across the land. The combination of sun and showers surely makes for a verdant landscape!