having tea at the Amangalla

[doranakandawatta]

Earlier, it was the "New Oriental Hotel":

[paulgila]

beautiful. is this called "colonial" style?

[doranakandawatta]

Paul,

This is true british colonial hotel in a true portuguese colonial fort filled with true colonial dutch house, poor sinhalese !
But tourists can enjoy the "colonial nostalgia" if they wish!

Galle Fort can show portuguese architecture and typical dutch mansions and some other british buildings.

They succeeded to each other: 1505, 1658, 1796, chacun son tour: each in turn!

[Kim]

That flower arrangement is a beauty -- I'd like to have a room large enough for one of those. But I'd especially like to grow some heliconias like that. I'm trying... Are the umbrellas made of waxed paper?

[doranakandawatta]

I think so Kim, maybe chinese umbrellas,

In Ceylon, people use umbrellas also under the sun, not only under the monsoon!