Mandy was up earlier than the rest of us and took some pictures of sunrise at the beach.

It was a relaxing start to the day. We wandered back to Cafe on the 18th for breakfast. I had a Srilankan omlette, and it tasted really good.

As we eating breakfast, the fishermen were pulling their nets along the sea.

After breakfast, we made ourselves comfortable on some sun loungers on the beach.

It was really hot, around 35⁰C and there were no umbrellas for shade, so we had to keep getting in the sea to cool down.

We also went and sat in the swing chair in the shade.

Around lunchtime we went to the open cafe area and had a beer.

We had decided we wanted to go dolphin watching the next morning so we went to the shop next door on the beach to book it. While we were there, Mandy and I booked to go snorkelling the day after, too.

We were all getting very hot lying on the beach, so we decided to walk along the beach into town – it’s around a 3-mile walk.

We passed the temple on the beach, which is really colourful, and lots of fishing boats.

Around an hour and a half later, we made it to the town. We walked up a little side ally to get onto the main street and walked along this for a bit.

We were all quite thirsty, so we managed to find a locals cafe for a drink. I had a passionfruit milkshake.

Trincomalee has been one of the main centres of Sri Lankan Tamil speaking culture on the island for nearly a millennium. Trincomalee is sacred to SrilankanTamils and Hindus around the world. The city has many Hindu sites of historical importance. These sites are sacred to the Hindus, and some Buddhists also worship at these Hindu sites.

The harbour in Trincomalee is renowned for its large size and security; unlike any other in the Indian Ocean, it is accessible in all weathers to all craft. It has one of the largest Dutch forts, which is now used by the Srilankan navy.

We wandered around the town for a while before deciding to head back home.

It was a long, hot walk back along the beach, but we did spot a pretty bird.

As we were walking down to our hotel, we decided to stop off and have dome refreshment on the beach.

As we were walking back to the hotel, the sun was starting to go down.

We walked back to the hotel. I say hotel, but it’s more like a b&b without the breakfast.

After a refreshing shower, we noticed a couple of cockroaches in the room. Mandy and I managed to catch the one under the bed in a glass, scoot it over to the door, and chuck it out. The second one was in the bathroom, and we just left it under the glass as there was a step up to the bedroom, and we couldn’t scoot it along the floor without it escaping.

For dinner, we walked down the beach to a restaurant called Waves. It had loads of fish and seafood, and we decided to share the garlic prawns and fries. They tasted really good.

We got chatting to the owner, Raj, who has recently undergone a hip operation. We also chatted to a welsh guy called Ian, who was teaching diving for the dive shop that Raj owned. It was interesting chatting to them both.

We had a couple of drinks with dinner and I tried some of the Red Rum, it was really nice.

We had a lovely evening chatting with everyone, but after a while, we decided to head home.

There was a DJ night going on at Fernando’s bar, so we stopped for a quick drink. But we didn’t recognise any of the music, so we headed home.