Love is in the Air
March 21st has come and gone back in Canada so Spring has officially started… I’m not sure Spring is such a big thing in a tropical climate when the seasons seem to look the same but alas, Spring…new growth, love….
Very early in our visit to the island, Mark and I went for a walk along the Galle Face Green ‘boardwalk’, a wide cement sidewalk and huge wall separating the ocean waves from the ‘green’. I remembered Mark saying, “Oh ya, there they are, the “Umbrella Lovers”. He had read about this phenomen of couples meeting on the Galle Face Green and using umbrellas to not only block themselves from the sun but also from prying eyes.
This was a typical scene back then…
These days, there is major construction work on the Galle Face Green so it is all fenced off. But the lovers are still congregating:
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