Galle, Sri Lanka has been the site of fortifications for centuries... back to when the spice trade was dominated by the Arabians & Moors. It was a Portuguese colony before becoming part of the Dutch & then British Empires. Spice plays chess with crowns. Galle's ramparts no longer exist, leaving a rambling core of shops to remain. We had lunch in a place close to one of the old walls of the fortifications... the fort that protected the spice economy & politics of that trade.
Its good to experience how those paragraphs in grade school history books look on the ground.
There's that pair of horns again [note this meme through numerous of these current posts... Is it their culture or my selective eye?]
Someone kept up with the times, for awhile last century...
Paraphernalia for coffee & spice, but...
It's a tourist town,,,
Where there used to be canons.
Oops!
The necessary lighthouse.
& church...
We found it good to get back to our jungle home... in lovely twilight of Empires...
Candlelit twilight!
Pff't't! Ah'choo! Spice!
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