Time for the drive of your life... being in a car on the roads from Madurai to Pondicherry or'puducherry' as its been renamed or 'pudding cherry' as I have renamed it (well everyone else changes the names of places in India so i thought i would join in !) well where was I...yes the journey was almost undescribable...I will try...I could no longer hear anything after 7 hours except car horns, we passed a truck at a strange angle stopped in the middle of the road....nothing much new there but until we realised that what we had seen as charred remains on the road 400m s before was infact its gear box. The driver simply sat in his cab dangling his legs looking bemused whilst cars beeped him to death. Few more miles along a big truck had toppled over...no panic it made a good source of shade for the men of the nearby village to watch the woman build the roads. In some ways I was pleased that this would be one of the last epic Indian road journeys at least for this year... after the painful journey some luxury was needed a hotel with a pool and breakfast included !!! Good shopping, coffee shops and a beauty salon nearby made Pondicharry the pudding cherry of the trip. Pondicherry is seemingly the shopping outlet mecca of India...guilty i bought a very nice bag. More than shopping though Pondicherry is a lovely place to relax its french roots give it a gentle european feel with the quirkyness that is india still ever present.
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