Dispatches from Pondicherry, India
Arrived by Car on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 2:00pm local time
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Pondicherry; The frustrations of travelling; Pondicherry does not welcome travellers on a budget
Sometimes, when you're travelling, you have these days when... nothing works. When every step you take is blocked by some asinine circumstance, and trying to work around the problem only reveals some other, entirely different, frustrating problem. These days happen, as I say. There's nothing you can do to stop…
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Mahabalipuram to Pondicherry; In which I finally get the better of a taxi driver; Finding the only hotel room in town; Pondicherry has a split personality; I finally get my phone working; Lakshmi the Painted Elephant
We had the same difficulty leaving Mahabalipuram that we had in arriving. Our guidebook said that we needed bus 188A to get to Pondicherry, and the hotel staff said it left every hour. But when we arrived at the bus station and asked, we were told that there was no…
