St Andrews Scots Kirk this morning where we were greeted by minister and congregation, it was Communion Sunday so a little formal but it was good to share in worship with our host families.

We had a couple of hours to spare after church so it was a little shopping then a bite to eat with Jonny Edwards our host before picking up our bags and heading back to the Church to get on our minibuses for Hikkaduwa.  I think some of the girls did a bit more than a little shopping!

The drive to our guest house down the coast road to Galle was pretty good and we arrived about six.  It was long until swim suits were donned and folk were getting their feet and more wet. The crash of the waves on the beach straight in off the Indian Ocean brought memories of Dar es Salaam and Ocean Bay flooding back. Sitting in my room I can still hear the constant roar of the waves so I will sleep well tonight probably dreaming of another house and another  coastline.

Work beckons tomorrow but not before breakfast virtually, as you can see from Jeans photo, on the beach. (sounds like a tune that, eh?So, lets all together now sing "on The Beach" "on The Beach". ok forget it)

Meanwhile as the Sri Lanka team sweat it out in the local Sunday service our valiant European explorer whipes the sweat from his brow as he endures one of The hottest summers the Rumanian region has ever experianced.

A slave to trying out, every custom of the countries he travels through. Jamie has a MacDonalds while the local urchins beg for food all around him.

To get to the capital Bucharest he has endured arriving at a toll with no local currency and driven up "the most ammasing road in the world, the transfergian highway"

Some of his fellow adventurers have not been lucky, with Emily losing her purse, Nick has lost his pasport and our own Jamie having his own black moment. While trying to help cheer up the local kids by blowing bubbles from the roof of the bus, he decided to come down by sliding gently down the windscreen!  Silly? any one no of you know a local Autoglass outlet in Romania? Yup Jamie is now driving with a shatered windscreen.

Alas the seedier side of Bucharest has reered it,s ugly head but I am happy(?) to report thet our Jamie is a paragon of virtue and did not partake.

Well that about brings us up to speed with the p.a.b (Phinekens A Broad)mob and as one team contemplates the work ahead the other? How to get glass splinters out of?

Well we will just  imagine all that delightful sunshine will we not?