For our first weekend off in Sri Lanka we headed up to Bentota, which is a popular tourist destination to meet up with volunteers from other projects.
In Sri Lanka it is perfectly acceptable to visit the big hotels and pay to use their pools. It usually costs anything up to GBP2 (they don't have pound signs on sri lankan keyboards only dollar signs!) and for that you get a lounger, towel and use of the facilities.
The hotel is a big complex set in lovely grounds with a nice stretch of beach behind it, but it does seem to cater predominently to Germans. I wandered through it 10 years ago when it seemed very shabby, but it does seem to have had a refurbishment now. Not sure I would pay gbp75 a night though.
I have to admit that I always thought that the thing with Germans and sunloungers was a bit of myth until I saw it today.
The gang we met up with had booked and paid for 7 loungers in a row by the pool. They were all set out with their towels too so they thought that they were safe to leave them whilst the monsoon hit again.
When they eventually came back down a group of Germans had taken 4 of them over and commandeered them in German fashion. What ensued was a heated argument and of course the other side would not back down. They just stole the sunloungers further away. From a distance it was so funny and like a sketch from Fawlty Towers.
We expected them to kick sand in our faces or throw our bags into the pool if we turned our backs.
So - never leave your sunlounger when there are Germans around even if the monsoon is drowning you.
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