21 01 08 well after a hurried start we got to the bus station before 7am. julia dealt with the touts and we ran to the platform for our bus at 7. The first for the day but leaving every hour. we got 3 seats behind the driver in a better bus and driver...lots of stops for passengers but only one 10 min comfort stop so it was chai time and a packet of biscuits. There were still lots of close shaves and the bus eventually filled to overflowing. It was a 6 hr trip a...

Well we checked out of the hostel in Puducherry and they looked after our bags in reception til early evening. Spent the day wandering around the city and the esplanade ..all very enticing and after woodfired pizza headed back to the hostel for bags, Auto rickshaw to bus station and waited for our 9;30 bus. It was described as a semi-deluxe liner but it was like the old school buses from my school trips! Once again we were the only palangis ion board and sleeping...

The 2 hour bus ride down was fairly uneventful. We got a nice farewell from the guesrt room people and just by chance the husband picked us up and took us to the mainroad where we just caught the bus. It was half full and we were the only palangis on board. There was a drunk though and he sidled up nect to somebody up front and vomited out the window opening...(there was no glass) so a women back along the bus got a share causing an upset husband so the conductor...

Hi all Left Chennai yesterday morning and caught a rickshaw to the bus station about 11am. we had just been commenting how with all the mayhem on the roads we'd seen no crashes or near misses yet within the space of 10 mins this morning we say 2 motorbikes collide but stay upright and then an elderly man knocked off his bike by an auto rickshaw. He was flat out on the ground but picked himself up straightened his clothes and carried on. The streets generally ha...

Hello Everyone, Finally got this thing working but now in a little village (12,000) people on the beach 2 hrs south of Chennai. Well where to start..Got off to a good start with Vicki dropping me at airport. Plane was 30 mins late, but we caughgt this up by Singapore but then tropical electrical storm at airport meant circling for 30 mins..however uneventful flight of 3:30 to Chennai from there. Very few europeans on plane ,,I cxhose the Indian menu options, Ve...