Farewell to Galle
On my last full day in Galle I felt that it was fare that I went for a long walk around both the Old and New town (Which the tuk-tuk drivers found confusing!). The Old town surrounded by its Dutch fort walls seems unchanged in hundreds of years with colonial style buildings and narrow charming streets. However the new town is completely different with a more dynamic stance - traffic is busy with many well used busses in evidence and there is the bustle of city life even though it is a Sunday. The train station turns out to be quite small and uncrowned!! And it is possible just to turn up and buy tickets for a train rather than booking in advance, fantastic as this is my next mode of transport…
I noticed a sign stating that the European film festival had arrived in town and had FREE showings of award winning European films at 1pm and 3pm - so I had to go and see both ;) However, the locals did not seem to have the same enthusiasm, there were only 5 people (3 tourists) at the first film “Upperdog” from Norway, while the second film “The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus” only pulled in 23 people, once again mostly tourists and probably due to the ‘Johnny Depp factor’. Still, both were enjoyable to see on the big screen.