A Galle...ing good time

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Well we have just returned from a very very lazy long weekend in Sri Lanka. So lazy in fact that we didn’t even leave the front doors of the hotel resort that we were staying in. We decided to take a little trip to celebrate the end of Ramadan (Eid) and booked a little package holiday to Sri Lanka. Being the wimps that we are we couldn’t bear to go economy and had to book business class fares again. And the hotel was called the Fortress Resort. This was in a town called Galle. Now when I looked up the location of this on the Sri Lankan Tourism Website it said that Galle was 1.5 hours away from Colombo, where we were flying into. However that must be as the crows flies or as the Ferrari roars on six lane highways, because the journey that we had was a 4.5 hour mammoth adventure that had us grabbing our hair in horror as we careened around blind corners overtaking buses that were overtaking a tuk tuks into oncoming tuk tuk traffic. The only good thing that I can say about the driving is that we got there in one piece, and the reason behind some of the driving in Dubai has suddenly become very clear.

Our arrival at the hotel however was just spectacular. The place was amazing! Check out the photos.

There is not much else to report about the weekend away unfortunately as we didn’t actually do anything over than sleep in, sit by the pool, have lunch, sit by the pool some more (with the occasional swim), then go to the beauty spa for a treatment, and then go to the bar, and then dinner and then bed. We truly didn’t step foot out of the hotel once in the entire holiday (except to leave again).

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Photos

The Fortress Hotel
The pool area was just lovely

the room
The room was just divine. Our mouths dropped open when we saw it

Poor chelle
trying to sleep when someone insists on having the lights on!