Galle Day 3

This morning our host took us on a complementary walk up Church Street to visit two major Christian churches. These are the Anglican and the Dutch Reformed churches. They were both built in the early 17 hundreds.There is another building which is of the same era which was a church but is now a Mosque. They were all impressive buildings built of stone and rendered white or cream and with magnificent timber interiors. We only visited the Christian ones. From there we walked back to our accommodation in a very leisurly and circuitous way.We walked down past Sri Lanka's longest building which is the old mercantile traders building and is now converted to two museums. To fit in with our host we had commenced this walk without breakfast so it was our first priority when we arrived back. Bob ate his usual two egg, sausage, chicken bacon serving but this morning he was served baked beans as well. We always seem to be eating so I settled for a banana milkshake. We were joined by three scrawny kittens who seemed to be obsessed with Bob's shoes and socks. We did our best to ignore them but they were quite cute. Eventually one of the men serving us took a carton of milk outside and filled up a couple of improvised trays for them. No sign of mother cat. We came back here after breakfast to pick up a tuktuk to go exploring the department stores up in the main town. The Fort area has all variety of offerings for tourists and most of it is good quality but we have travelled enough not to want "things". My main requirement was a new backpack as mine won't accommodate the few things we have bought. Found just the item at a reasonable price in the school requirements section. After a rest it was approaching lunchtime. Just as we set off it started to rain. Big heavy drops but it didn't last long and we just waited on our first floor verandah and watched the street parade. Lunch was easy to find and then we had another walk around town. Then it was rest time again. Only a few hours to dinner time now. Life is tough.