Negombo

I got up and went for a walk along the beach before breakfast. It is a nice long sandy beach with fishing boats and catamarans. After a buffet breakfast, I went for a quick swim, while Paula and Daniel arranged to get new glasses from an optician selling glasses along the beach. He took their glasses to get the prescription, and will then go and make the new ones. They got their glasses about 6 hours later. When we were down at the beach, we noticed that the hotel had a "fresh fish market", where we could choose the fish and pay by the 100g, and they would cook it for you. We bought 500g of prawns and 500g of Thalapath, which was similar to tuna. As a bonus they offered 2 bottles of beer with 500g of fish, so we got our 4 beers, fries, and griiled fish and prawns and sat at tables set up on the sand under the palm trees. Every time we went near the beach someone would try to sell you something. Besides the optician on the beach, Paula and Daniel both bought other things. We all went for a swim in the pool, and watched the sun set over the beach. We enjoyed the lunch, but thought that we should double the amount for dinner, which we had at the restaurant.