Eli and Mike

On the 15th of March we flew from Kolkata to Chennai (but missed our connecting flight, obviously. This is India after all). After splashing out for the next flight down (with the so-called 'cheap' Indian airlines....) we arrived in Chennai and went straight to Pondicherry. Pondi is an old French town on the southern East shore of India in the state of Tamil Nadu. We saw a different India here: Shops, cafes (with real coffee!), friendly people (finally), less hassling, laid back culture and even rubbish bins on the streets. We stayed about a week due to being extremely feverish and sick. Our room was in a very nice ashram park guest house by the sea (run by the rudest, most pathetically fundamentally religious rule-abiding morons in the world). We then moved on to Thrivandrum in ... read more