Southern India taste test - would that be hot, or extra hot?

[bPeteb]

and then it was off on our 'tour'.

We should have looked at this as we were not the slightest bit interested in walking into an ashram. How odd. All of these people trying to find their inner selves and a bunch of tourists wandering quietly in. Just weird.

Then to a very crowded temple where again we felt awkward as people were there to pray.

Sunil walked us down to the esplanade and then we were on our own. I had a very Life of Pi image of Puducherry. This was not it



lots of bars for us to choose from as we were staying at another dry hotel. We chose Sicilys and the beers were good,locally Puducherry brewed



a Banksy?



back to the hotel, after crossing the absolutely vile waterway between the French Quarter and White Town



and dinner and beers at a place called Float Gastro Pub



Lovely staff but smokers around us so it was dinner and one beer and we were back to Bull. Last actual night of the tour tomorrow at Mahabalipuram.

 

[bPeteb]

Speaks volumes when you see India (and Thailand, which is where we were for Christmas, and many other non-majority-Christian countries)) openly celebrate Christmas, with "Merry Christmas" everywhere, but Qantas has to say "Happy Holidays." Not happy Jan.

Yeah. We could not care less and have found the displays more amusing than anything else. We are not Christmas people.