Another relaxing Saturday passes in Colombo. After a morning of internet browsing, application updating and blog posting I could tell from my wife's demeanor that a break from the computer was in order ;-) Spent a happy couple of hours playing Sequence (a board come card game) out on our balcony and was marginally beaten by my wife :) Revenge will be mine next time though, honestly :-D A bottle of 3 coins Dark Irish has set me up for the evening and I fancy a good hot curry. A quick consultation with the Mrs revealed the Mango Tree was a good bet. I fancy a really spicy curry tonight but as I have found to my disappointment Sri Lanka curries tend to come in one state of hotness - the equivilent in the UK of medium to hot. They don't do mild and they don't do really hot. Now the Mango Tree is an Indian restaurant and they tend to offer a bit more variety. However, the Indian restaurants in Sri Lanka are confusing to an Englishman like me. I went for a Vindaloo once, at the Tandoor Indian restaurant. Now in the UK a Vindaloo is an experience rarely to be undertaken without a good few beers inside you for courage. Here it was about as hot as a bag of salt and vinegar crisps :( In fact the only really hot curry house I have found so far is the Queen's Cafe on Duplication Road. That does a pretty mean take away. However it doesn't half keep you more than regular for a few days afterwards so I tend to reserve meals there for when the wife is away for a couple of days afterwards ;-)
Anyway we'll catch a Bajaj there around 18:15 and see if they can accomodate us. If so I'll report on the Mango Tree tomorrow.