Happy Birthday Rotary

English breakfast again and entertaining chat with Padmini in the courtyard garden.



Hindu Temple, Colombo



Gangarama Buddhist Temple, Colombo

Quick visit to Hindu Temple and back again to Gangarama Temple which was much quieter than before and very tranquil.



Speaking before former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister



Met the team at Cinnamon Grand for lunchtime presentation which turned out to be a 5 minute introduction from me as they had the former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister as keynote speaker also on the bill.

Transferred to new hosts – Adam and Nadira – in their lovely house which has wi-fi so spent time catching up on emails and the blog. The team agreed the programme for the next couple of days which includes some much-needed rest time at Mount Lavinia and our team’s only meal together by ourselves in the whole trip.

Ishara, Nando, Senake and Imthiaz

Later tonight there’s our final presentation to a joint meeting of Colombo and Colombo Midtown where I’ll be giving a 15 minute round up of our time here. Happy birthday Rotary! Keynote speaker was His Excellency Bruce Levy, the Canadian High Commissioner who read his speech on 'Conflict Resolution - a Canadian Perspective.

(Just learnt of an extra informal presentation tomorrow evening for 30 minutes – so we’ve not quite finished with ‘show and tell’ at the Rotary Clubs. This'll bring our tally to 23 clubs which we've presented to)