Progress

We've been making some progress in our house hunt. Finalised a place yesterday, and daughter began school too. Luckily she liked it!

Some random observations about Colombo:

1. The young coconuts (what we call "dab") are orange here not green.
2. The sea is grey quite often, rarely the vibrant turquoise blue we were used to in the middle east. It also seems more violent, whereas the Arabian Sea was so much more serene. Ofcourse here it's the ocean whereas there it was the sea, maybe that makes a difference.
3. The strange thing is Colombo seems to start straight from the sea. There's practically no beach to speak of. One probably has to go to other areas to catch that.
4. Women here dress quite modern/western. Skirts, pants are common. They also wear saris, however the salwar kameez is rarely seen. Saris are worn either in the Indian style (however everyone wears it severely pinned up like airhostesses, and a few wear it the traditional sri lankan style). Most women, I may have mentioned here are quite lean, which means the Sri Lankan diet must be quite healthy over all. Women walk nice and straight.
5. Driving is quite erratic. No street signs anywhere. With my poor sense of direction I'm having a tougher time getting to know places.
6. I love the tv selection here. We get NDTV Good times, Discovery Travel and Living and Star World all of which I like a lot, especially the first 2. Have been happily watching Everybody Loves Raymond again.
7. The weather here is the same all year round! So it never gets cold.

That's all I can think of right now. And feeling sleepy.