encounter with a coffee shop

 Encounter with a coffee shop, like the encounter with a person, there are factors that fate. encounter Gallery Café, let me Bawa (Sri Lanka architect) love rose to new heights.

travel in Sri Lanka, the last day, I suddenly think to go buy some souvenirs, then allow the driver to take me to Paradise Road boutique. Guairu alley cars, trees gradually dense, noisy quietly away, blocks of colonial chic style Old House Lane long lyric to spread into. Paradise Road, the name is an accurate representation of the locals on this one block of envy and longing.

boutique shopping yet, to suddenly be a deep old villas to attract, if Zhong Lexie physical and mental, can not stop along the magical space that the first open door. chanced to meet stood along the banks of the doorman, not words, any time I follow the down low roof, long and narrow corridor , into the free exercise of fragrant flower diameter, until the quiet elegant colonnade courtyard I can not help but accept this step.

at this time I like the blazing afternoon sun in a long and narrow the pool at a loss, Central placed three pots of pool water lily, water lilies are awake each flower, bloom, a few fish in the shallow shadows on the tail tossing. pool with long colonnades on both sides, only the breeze blow in the meantime breeze.



I have walked two courtyards, did not feel the business atmosphere, the aroma of coffee did not even smell. colonnaded courtyard of the white pieces of colorful wall paintings, away against the wall of the old wall, strands of vines, a statue, looking more like a gallery posture here. For ah, Gallery Café translated into Chinese, not that the gallery cafe it? Even so, I still marvel that the space blank how extravagant! If replaced by It left open the channel tunnel There is also a long case, picture, statue, and light against the background of these works of art. burnished, like a large red brick floor, spread out like water, the above to.

This is another private courtyard with two-story, courtyard were filled with several only ceramic vat, a large wall is higher than the small have half the height, it is eye-catching, which makes I think just passed the first tree in the courtyard Laota few ceramic vat, like the symphony's third movement depicts the prelude to the melody.



At this point,UGG boots, one wearing a collar white shirt, black sarong the waiters warm welcome in the ranks, where he introduces the history and flavor. I was pleasantly surprised to find that he inadvertently broke into the gallery cafe, even once the studio architect Bawa, this building three of the progressive left in the old villa in the everywhere Bawa's footprint and prints. forty-five m up to the second floor with a long table, covered with Bawa's design drawings had. I have stayed off the Kandalama Hotel, Lighthouse Hotel in the design drawings that are not allowed to appear at this long table had it. Oh, such an association, Gallery Café immediately adding to a kind of intimacy, as if suddenly met his idol, and taking his warm hand.



the world most famous cafe has good coffee, delicious dessert or meal characteristics, Gallery Café is also worth noting deep in the food . eight days I have eaten countless times Sri Lanka's homely, However, Gallery Café Package shrimp curry looks very simple. First,UGG boots clearanc, it feels like a vessel surrounded by a circle of flowers and insects, fish, Sinhala language, there are hieroglyphics of charm, very pleasing. It is said that the Sinhala complicated and tortuous par with the Chinese part of speech changes, and often let each Its secret is nothing but heart and do not mind, culture and no culture, there is the difference between aesthetic and non-aesthetic.



, contains within it the traditional Sri Lankan dishes to sweet, sour, salty, spicy, bitter,UGG boots cheap, astringent taste to balance the body needs six to meet different people's pursuit of the complex taste. Although Bawa not cook, but he well versed in architectural taste, he thought the building with the most simple language to express the most abundant emotions.

Some people say that building is frozen music. I think, Gallery Café is the original creator of this music bar watts. He passed high and low, rolling, strength, and density, the actual situation, advance and retreat, and separate room for changes regularly, reflecting the rhythm of cadence, as if the music of the overture, extension, crescendo, climax, repetition,cheap UGG boots, ending brought sense of melody.

such wonderful music to the sun in the afternoon, the pool of ripples on the window frames with flowers flowing between cells, so that night I sat in the plane, ears still echoed with Bawa creation architecture melody.

taken in Colombo, Sri Lanka