After a hair cut for each of us at Colombo City Centre mall to the right of Rennie in the image above, we today decided to walk home rather than take a taxi or tuk tuk.  Not far from the start, on the corner between Sir James Pieris Mawatha and Perahera Mawatha (mawatha being road) is a shabby and decaying concrete building that has never been completed.  I understand that it is owned by the nearby Gangaramaya Temple, which would make sense because just like the temple houses a huge collection of old possessions, so does this incomplete structure – including motor vehicles like they have been forgotten in a multi-storey car park.  Construction in Colombo is currently at a much-reduced rate (in fact with a majority of sites standing idle) but with the site of this particular building being prime land next to the lake, its days as a shabby eye-sore have to be numbered.

Although in the peak of the day so not very flattering for photography, the walk also gave opportunity to capture the eclectic range of buildings more widely in this part of the city.

Arrival home saw us hot and sweaty and grateful for the air conditioned cool on opening the door to our apartment before heading straight for a shower, but glad we had walked.

Steve