Home Ground

I drove down to Galle with Michael Roberts who grew up inside the Fort. As we drove in he told me the names the families who had lived in the houses we passed. He told me how once during a game of Hide and Seek as a boy he hid in the dungeons of the Fort (now closed) because everyone else was too scared to come looking for him there.

Michael told me about cycling to swim in the sea at Closenberg and remembers sociable times at the tennis tournaments of the Galle Gymkhana Club. A regular day, he said, might include a swim, a game of tennis, or an evening’s game of cricket on his school grounds, now the Test grounds at Galle.